"The venerable statesman Demirel used to repeat: "In politics, you go the same way that you came." Erdoğan came to power in the wake of 1999 earthquake... It looks like he'll go in the wake of the 2023 earthquake. This earthquake that has claimed thousands of lives will bury him in the wreckage. The one man regime he's created is crushed under the rubble. Driven by a greed for power, he has taken all the strings into his own hands taken control of every institution. Utterly intolerant of any objection, he is left surrounded by yes men. And the outcome? Turkey is in the grip of the worst catastrophe in its history; hundreds of thousands are screaming under the rubble; millions are trying to help; but with all the power in the hands of one man and the one man conspicuous by his absence as is always the case in any crisis, the state is paralysed."
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