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This latest move sends Turkey spiralling towards dictatorship.

Turkey’s young democracy has arguably been on its deathbed since July 2015. But now, with the arrest of Erdoğan’s most outspoken political opponents, the country’s shaky democratic façade is finally dead and buried. And feelings of ‘concern’ are not going to bring it back to life.

This is very bad for what was once recently a fairly democratic place.

Source: Turkish democracy is officially dead and buried, as Erdoğan puts the final nail in its coffin | The Canary