Why the world is worried about Turkey

⁣Even before the failed military coup, Turkey’s President Erdogan governed like a dictator who had the last word on all state matters The botched coup was nothing but, as he put it, “a gift from God” to purge what is left of Turkey’s democracy and cleanse the army and judiciary in order to ensure the total subordination of all institutions to his whims For Erdogan, being elected was akin to being granted a license to trample and dismantle all democratic tenets to consolidate his powers and promote his Islamic agenda