For months, events at home and abroad appeared to be moving in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s favour.
Years of fraught relations with Europe were warming as Ankara’s importance as a Nato ally was reinforced by US President Donald Trump’s pivot to Moscow; Turkey’s runaway inflation was cooling; and interest rates, long the bane of Erdoğan, were finally falling. There were even signs that a 40-year insurgency by Kurdish separatists may be coming to an end.
But the darker side of Erdoğan’s rule was simmering in the background as the authorities launched a months-long crackdown against his political opponents, while the veteran leader raged against an “opposition problem that poisons democracy”.
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