Though Turkey appears to be pushing for a democratic Syria, Dani Rodrik worries that the Erdogan government has the opposite goal on the domestic front:
[A]ny perceived opponent of the current regime can be jailed, with or without evidence, for terrorism or other violent acts. Special courts, tasked with prosecuting terrorism and crimes against the state, have been working overtime to produce charges that are often as absurd as they are baseless. For example, journalists have been imprisoned for producing articles and books at the behest of an alleged terrorist organization called "Ergenekon," whose existence has yet to be confirmed, despite years of investigation.
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