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The Turkish electorate has made its decision, and President Erdogan received 52.14% of the vote. He will begin his third term, which will leave him in office until 2028 and will be his last, as the country’s constitution does not allow for a fourth term. In discussing these elections, we cannot avoid the paradoxes of the result. Indeed, they do not reflect the broad discontent with the Turkish economy that preceded it, when the value of the Turkish Lira declined to reach levels that one would expect to push President Erdogan out of office.
EcevitKastamonuTurkeyGreeceFranceSaudi-arabiaSaudiFrenchTurkishJames-carvilleMarcel-gauchetDevelopment-partyMore often than not, the first thing that pops into a person’s head when he or she hears the words “French Revolution” is the guillotine, that exsanguinary instrument that, two centuries later, still looms over the revolution’s legacy as it once did over its enemies. No man is more responsible, or culpable, if one prefers, for transforming the guillotine into the symbol of the French Revolution than Maximilien Robespierre, the revolutionary orator and Jacobin who became the de facto leader who oversaw la Grande Terreur. It is the lawyer from Arras, therefore, who was arguably the leading actor on the revolutionary stage. Robespierre made the guillotine; the guillotine made Robespierre. And both, in the popular mind, made the French Revolution.
FranceFrenchGrande-terreurMarcel-gauchetNational-razorCommittee-of-public-safetyPrinceton-university-pressPrinceton-universityFrench-revolutionMaximilien-robespierrePublic-safetyDeath-penaltyAuthor: Marcel Gauchet Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events. The fervor of those who defend Robespierre the “Incorruptible,” who championed the rights of the people, is met with revulsion by those who
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