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Turkey Banned a Book by a Jailed Presidential Hopeful. We Read It.

New York Times5 October 2026, 09:23 UTCTurkey

From jail, the former mayor of Istanbul accuses President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of hollowing out Turkey’s democracy to stay in power.

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