12 Days of Christmas Scorn

Will the Istanbul nightclub massacre lead to "The End of Democracy in Turkey"?

Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik, reportedly now under arrest, told The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins in August, early in the Turkish-government crackdown following the failed coup against the regime, that "he had little doubt that [President] Erdoğan aimed to remove all impediments to his rule" -- and that he himself expected to be arrested "very soon."by KenAlthough I refrained from fobbing off my amateur speculations in