Turkey’s nail-biter election has made clear that the people’s faith in the country’s electoral system remains strong and that the incumbent, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is still a formidable political force, despite his failure to secure a first-round victory. A runoff will be held on May 28 after Turkey’s Supreme Election Council announced on Monday […]
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Eight Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Putin’s War in Ukraine
Many of the people closest to Mr. Putin fed his suspicions, magnifying his grievances against the West. A former confidant compared the dynamic to the radicalization spiral of a social media algorithm: “They read his mood and they start to slip him that kind of stuff.” Mr. Putin planned the invasion in such secrecy that […]