Elections in Turkey: Free and Fair?

Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has descended into a dictatorship and the recently held snap elections are another example of systematic rights abuses coming out of Turkey.

Analysis by:

David L. Phillips
Director, Program on Peace-building and Rights
Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights
and author of An Uncertain Ally: Turkey Under Erdogan's Dictatorship (2017)

David L. Phillips is currently Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Phillips has worked as a senior adviser to the United Nations Secretariat and as a foreign affairs expert and senior adviser to the U.S. Department of State. He has written more than 100 articles and editorials in publications such as The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs. Phillips is the author of An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship, The Kurdish Spring: A New Map of the Middle East, From Bullets to Ballots: Violent Muslim Movements in Transition, Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco, and Unsilencing the Past: Track Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation.