As night fell Thursday and Istanbul girded for a decisive police - TopicsExpress



          

As night fell Thursday and Istanbul girded for a decisive police raid on Gezi Park that officials had said was imminent, Mr. Erdogan shifted strategy once again by inviting the protest organizers to his home for talks. As protest leaders hurried to the airport, a measure of calm and a sense of reprieve descended over the park. Once again Mr. Erdogan, in handling a crisis that began with a relatively minor urban development issue but morphed into a broad uprising against his rule, had inserted himself in a matter that in other countries would have long been settled by a local planning board. After over a decade of Mr. Erdogan and his religiously conservative Justice and Development Party in power, Turks have become accustomed to a micromanaging leadership style in which no matter is too small to merit the attention of the prime minister and even big foreign policy decisions pivot on the emotions and whims of one man.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:30:17 +0000

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