The world recoils as Turkey's president steals dictatorial powers (but Trump congratulates him)
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2KKCC)
Though Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoAan presides over a nominal democracy, he has surrounded himself with all the trappings of dictatorship: spending more than a billion tax-dollars on a "palace" for himself, hiring the mafia to smuggle his money-laundering kid out of Italy ahead of the police, conspiring to launder millions himself, brutalizing protesters, jailing critics and comedians, arresting and purging public institutions of his opposition, and more. (more")