Andrew North is a journalist who covers Afghanistan and the Caucasus. He is based in Tbilisi.
Holding contradictory policy positions and being reliably unpredictable have become a core part of the Recep Tayyip Erdogan brand in the nearly two decades he has led Turkey as prime minister and president.



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