2023, the year of all challenges for Recep Tayyip Erdogan?

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reigned supreme over Turkey for almost twenty years. As the anniversary of this second decade in power approaches, Anne Andlauer, journalist and correspondent in the country for France Inter publishes “Erdogan’s Turkey”, published by Rocher. This documented book provides a better understanding of this country through several themes such as that of the Uyghurs, a subject formerly described as “genocide“by the Turkish President, now relegated under the carpet”no doubt because he gave in to economic pressures“, analyzes the journalist.

And that’s not all. If 2023 will mark the centenary of the advent of the Turkish Republic, it will also be the time of the presidential elections in the country. So many ways for President Erdogan to strengthen his stature and enforce the law of silence? “Turkey was an extremely deadly country for journalists in the 70s, 80s, 90s“, recalls Anne Andlauer who evokes at this moment a sentence pronounced by a local journalist who explained to her that if we die less today”we suffer more“. And the journalist concludes: “Today, and in particular since the failed coup of 2016, the spaces for expression of democracy are shrinking more and more, in all areas“, calling the vote a “last bastion” for the population.