Having stopped halfway between a pro-Western democracy, with its mass culture and lack of spirituality, and a pure Sharia regime, Erdogan will be inevitably rejected by the supporters of those two opposing visions. Erdogan prevailed over the coup plotters this time.

Оn June 24, 2018, Recep Tayyip Erdogan gained an absolute majority in the presidential elections. According to Andrei Areshev, expert at the Center for Central Asian, Caucasian and Volga-Urals Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science, Erdogan’s political era will ext

By Jonathan Spicer7 Min ReadISTANBUL( Reuters)-Five years after President Tayyip Erdogan saw off a coup, his chances of extending his rule into a third decade may depend on whether he can reverse an economic decline that has seen Turks' prosperity tmsnrt.rs/ 2TaYZu5, equality tmsnrt.rs/ 3jhqMnU and employment tmsnrt.rs/ 3x6AXj1 fall since 2013. FILE PHOTO: A woman passes by an election poster of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, Turkey June 23, 2018.... REUTERS/ Alkis Konstantinidi