[hrkucuk]

God damn. If nothing this will be used to make ppl force vote for Erdogan in 2023... Just another propoganda tool to vote him :( And I was naively keeping up my hopes for this Turkey's 100th birthday elections, but it seems like he will follow a Nazarbayev model for himself. I can only hope him to get pulled into his bubble where he leaves important decisions to liable, honest people. But unless his "magistrates" come down it does not seem possible.

[asciimike]

In case you're coming to this thread asking yourself why there are a bunch of comments like this, I really like https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-new-su... as an overview of "how we got here in the first place."

[bayesian_horse]

I don't quite see how Erdogan would be any better at exploiting that resource than anybody else. Worse actually, because he'll have trouble attracting foreign investments...