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Authoritarian tendency which has been his path. we have to go back when he first came to power in the early 2000s. he brought an enormous amount of democracy to turkey. this is now a civilian government. he made judicial changes. he was good with the press. now the press, so many of them are in jail and side lined and fired and silenced and also started peace talks with the kurdish people and the kurdish party. all of that has now gone by the wayside. yes people are concerned of the future. >> erdogan answers those critics who say he's moving towards dictatorship in an exclusive cnn interview ...