By Daniel Greenfield —— Bio and Archives March 19, 2017
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Turkey’s controversial President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sparked mockery and condemnation by defending new powers he wants to give himself as being similar to Adolf Hitler’s. In a statement that surprised even his critics, Mr Erdogan responded to arguments that putting political power in the hands of the presidency would not work in a “unitary state”. He said there were other examples of its being successful. “There are already examples in the world,” he said. “You can see it when you look at Hitler’s Germany. There are later examples in various other countries.”This article first appeared at FrontPageMag.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site.