People and President

turk: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was among the first politicians to employ this strategy, according to Deutsche Welle. He described himself as a black Turk, a man of the people who had to protect citizens from the white Turks, the secular elite. It's these qualities that helped them win elections. Now, 15 years later, a real Turk, according to the president, is only someone who is like Erdogan himself. What at first might have been viewed as making politics for ordinary people is ultimately reduced to what the leader believes to be right. But while the president has modified the country's constitution to grant himself more power, abolished freedom of the press and restricted academic freedom, he has also introduced a simple religiosity into large sections of society, stipulated how many children a Turkish woman should give birth to and said that homosexuality is un-Islamic. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.