Alexander Clarkson

aphclarkson.bsky.social

05 June 2025 07:56

Fair points. The reason I kind of barged in though is I tend to see an initial inflationary crisis as the starting point of rot that can eat its way through a state's fiscal position in an authoritarian context. I'm not sure Simsek's rescue mission can be declared as accomplished yet

Alexander Clarkson

aphclarkson.bsky.social

04 June 2025 20:29

I guess it points to how inflation isn't enough to topple Erdogan, a fiscal crisis killing the state party's ability to distribute assets coupled with other stagflationary dynamics would need to converge with an unravelling of cohesion of state security services under pressure to bring it all down

Steven Seggie

stevenhseggie.bsky.social

29 March 2025 12:35

If you actually want to learn something about Turkey then the people to read are people like Andrew Finkel, Amberin Zaman, Karabekir Akkoyunlu, @jamesinturkey.com