How Erdogan Purged Turkey’s Intellectuals

“An authoritarian state can do many thingsto get rid of these democratic types — put them in jail, put them ontrial — but ultimately the government must attack the institutions thatproduce and sustain them. Newspapers can be easy to buy. NGOs are easyto shut down. Universities are much harder to dismantle. But this is what, through the great purge, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his allies sought to do.” – New York Times Magazine