Elif Shafak on Turkey’s turmoil: ‘Intimidation and paranoia dominates the land’

Not long ago, Turkey seemed optimistic about the future. But after clampdowns by strongman president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the rise of fanaticism and the Syrian war breaking out on its doorstep, the country is bitterly divided.

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