How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals
Turkey's GDP peaked at $950 billion in 2013, just before Erdogan became president. By 2017, it had slid to $850 billion, and after the intellectual purges, slid to just $766 billion in 2018. [1]<p>People may argue from ideology for or against politics like these, but I can think of no clearer indication of these policies' failure than the impoverishing of a country.<p>[1]: <a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/turkey/gdp" rel="nofollow">https://tradingeconomics.com/turkey/gdp</a>