Western observers and the bulk of domestic liberals did not give up on Erdoğan until his government’s heavy-handed tactics during the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in the summer of 2013. He then broke clumsily with the Gülen movement after its acolytes in the judiciary launched a corruption probe against him and his inner circle.
西方观察家和国内大部分自由主义者并没有放弃埃尔多安，直到其政府2013年夏对伊斯坦布尔加济公园的示威活动采取严厉镇压的举措。其后他笨拙地与葛兰运动分道扬镳，起因是葛兰运动在司法界的追随者对他和他的亲信发起腐败调查。