Sultan of swing

22 June 2023, The Tablet

Enough voters switched their support to give Recep Tayyip Erdogan a slim victory in the second round of Turkey’s presidential election. One hundred years after it was abolished and the Ottoman royal family banished, the caliphate has been surreptitiously restored.

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