Is Turkey headed for martial law?

A car bomb, allegedly set off by a militant offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), detonated outside an Izmir courthouse, killing at least two. The terror attack is just one more in a string of attacks demonstrating the collapse of Turkey’s counterterror capability in the wake of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s political purges.

Erdogan loves a crisis. He called the abortive July 15 coup “a gift from God.” He has since ushered in and extended emergency laws and purged tens of thousands of political enemies.

He is also allergic to criticism. Journalists either blame Erdogan’s enemy du jour or end up in prison. Since the terror campaign began, Erdogan has arrested more journalists than terrorists.

 
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Is Turkey headed for martial law?

 
Πηγή: American Enterprise Institute