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by CapricornNoble 2552 days ago
Turkey wasn't stable prior to Erdogan?
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There was a coup in 1980. And the list at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat is pretty convincing evidence that calling Turkey a stable democracy would be a stretch.
It has a long repetitive history of violent transitions in power, including the last couple hundred years.
Turkish democracy is barely 100 years old. If we are looking at a timeline of ~200 years, even the US won't come across as particularly stable, what with the Civil War and multiple Presidential assassinations since 1819.
None of those assassinations lead to a coup or revolution though, just peaceful transfer to the 2nd person in line. That seems like a vote for stability