
Can Dündar, Houses of Commons, 29 June. Credit: Flickr / Centre for Turkey Studies
By Can Dündar
In mobster movies the bad guys always kidnap the wife of the protagonist. They’ll phone the husband to say: “We have your wife. Do as we tell you otherwise she’s gone.”
I had not imagined that a state could become no better than a criminal syndicate. But the Turkish state has become one.