THE ROTS OF TURKEY'S TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DESCENT INTO SICK POLITICS

Hans-Lukas Kieser, Talk Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018) ("In the 2010s, Turkey has become post-Kemalist. It is a risk of losing not only its post-World War II orientation but also its new, more incisive, fundamental compass from the beginning of the twenty-first century: accession to the European Union and implementation of the EU standards, allowing democratic ideals of the 1908 Ottoman spring to resume. In the aftermath of recent loss, Turkey is again, and perhaps more than ever, haunted by fatal departures of a hundred years ago. [] A combination of power, corruption, and imperially biased national-religious appeal ('neo-Ottomanism") has presently--in the late 2010s--made politics sick again." Id. at 426-427.).