Turkey’s power game: Control at home and beyond

Turkey’s power game: Control at home and beyond

Turkey is classified as a “brown country” with both democratic and authoritarian features, but democracy, legality, and citizenship rights effectively disappear in southeastern Turkey.

Erdogan’s gatekeeper, a figure with a jihadist mindset, wields enormous power in Turkey’s governance - Nordic Monitor

Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm Hasan Doğan, chief of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s cabinet — the Turkish equivalent of the American chief of staff — occupies one of the most influential and strategic positions in the Turkish government. He acts as the gatekeeper to the highest office in the land and serves as the behind-the-scenes whisperer shaping presidential decisions and national policies. A theology graduate, Doğan began his political jour…