Recep Tayyip Erdoğan making the Rabia gesture to show solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood  (2013) COGwriter Turkey’s President Erdoğan is reported to be consolidating power: July 24, 2016 Supporters of Turkey’s ruling and main opposition parties, usually bitter foes, were set to rally together on Sunday in support of democracy following a failed military coup … Continue reading Turkey’s President Erdoğan consolidating power–is he to be ‘the Caliph of the Muslim world’?