'I'm Not A Dictator' - 55 percent who do not support Erdoğan continue to say he has established a dictatorship.(TodaysZaman).By ALİ ASLAN KILIÇ.
Referring to main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Erdoğan had said, “There are those who call me a dictator and who happen to be sitting right across from me,” during a speech delivered at the 70th Financial General Assembly of the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB), which was held on May 22.
This has fuelled the dictatorship debates between the two leaders. Some people claimed that with this move, Erdoğan aimed to show the 45 percent of people who voted for him in the elections that he is not a dictator.
Even if it were Erdoğan's real intention, it was the wrong move.
Referring to the book “The Psychology of Dictatorship” by Fathali Moghaddam, a Georgetown University academic, Kılıçdaroğlu said Erdoğan fits the academic description of a dictator.
He listed the four criteria used to describe a dictatorship, which were later spread on social media. People started posting the tactics employed by dictators throughout history on their social media accounts.Read the full story here.
