Zeyno Baran

Turkey’s president rose to power as an antiestablishment everyman. Twenty years later he is an authoritarian ruler clinging to control and leading an increasingly corrupt regime. Will the forces that catapulted him to power be his demise? Turkish voters head to the polls on May 14. The outcome of the election could determine the fate of Turkish democracy and will reverberate across the world. The Journal of Democracy has been covering Erdoğan and the AKP from the beginning.

Washington, D.C. has suddenly become very interested in the Muslim Brotherhood. American policymakers are debating whether to engage non-violent elements of the Muslim Brotherhood network, both inside and outside the United States, in the hope that such engagement will empower these “moderates” against violent Wahhabi and Salafi groups such as al-Qaeda.