Erdogan Cracks Down On Critics Ahead Of Elections

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections that will now be held in May this year in Turkey, Erdogan has seen to it that the government’s powers of censorship are at an all-time high to allow it to undermine potential opponents and silence critics. This includes the December prison sentence on trumped-up corruption charges for Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, an opponent of the government, which now makes it impossible for him to run for any political office. Criticism of the government is now a criminal…