19-03-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com

How Erdoğan’s ruthless drive for more power is shaking a divided Europe

The Turkish president’s bid to widen his powers by campaigning during the Dutch elections has sparked an all-out crisisThe ruthless drive by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s pugnacious president, to expand his already considerable executive powers knows no bounds. Even cows are not safe. At the height of last week’s furious row with the Netherlands, Turkey’s red-meat producers’ association said it was expelling 40 Holstein Friesian cattle. Dutch cows, like Dutch
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