Grotesque exaggerations based on half-truths, these tales gave Erdoğan and his allies the maneuvering room within which to make the political regime more, not less, authoritarian.
Estos relatos (exageraciones grotescas basadas en medias verdades) dieron a Erdoğan y sus aliados margen de maniobra para aumentar, en vez de disminuir, el autoritarismo del régimen político.