Turkey’s crisis of democracy may not end with the departure of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as there is ample reason to question whether fair elections would occur in a post-Erdoğan Turkey, said Steven Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relation.
Turkey may struggle to emerge as a healthy democracy due to the transformation of the country’s institutions under two decades of Erdoğan’s rule, Cook told Ahval editor-in-chief Yavuz Baydar in the media outlet’s Hot Pursuit podcast series.