I see a direct link with the elections, with the mentality of a dictatorship, someone can declare you an enemy, and lynch you with pre-prepared prosecutors and judges.

Ekrem Dumanli

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He lost just when he was winning, a more pluralistic, participatory democracy would have made him a hero in the Middle East.

When the president talks about the case publicly, it's an intervention in the legal process, an effort to guide the judiciary, it's also a message to the rest of the Turkish media to re-think the way they cover him.