Tomorrow Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will take the oath of office, tightening his grip on power, adding another five years to his twenty already in office.
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With a dire financial crisis - the result of economic mismanagement and a slow response to February's deadly earthquake - many had thought his time was up.
But he has proved why he is an indomitable politician, with a potent fusion of religion, nationalism and oppression.
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