I think he is amazing. Amazingly bigoted. Amazingly loose with the fact. And several other "amazings" I can think of.
You know the old saying, "there is no such thing as bad publicity."
Not an entirely accurate assessment according to those who are intimately acquainted with Turkish Politics.
The New York Times (not a radical right wing news source) posted an interesting article a couple days ago:
Turkish voters go to the polls on Sunday in a referendum on a new constitution that would change the system of their country’s government. The ruling Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P., introduced these amendments last December — with the support of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party — to fix flaws in the current system. Unfortunately, the government’s proposals are being taken out of context. Opponents have cast the referendum as an attempt to grab power by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rather than what it really is: an effort to improve governance.
The basis of Turkey’s political system is a constitution that was written in 1982 by the generals who had carried out a military coup two years earlier. That document was then amended 18 times under sixsuccessive governments. In 2007, a referendum was held on an amendment to introduce the direct election of the presidency. It passed with nearly 60 percent of the vote. But the system remains riddled with inconsistencies and inefficiencies.
The current constitution establishes neither a parliamentary system nor a presidential one. In fact, it is a two-headed hybrid, with a directly elected parliament and a directly elected president. With both a president and a prime minister elected through popular vote, any major dispute on policy between the two leaders could cause deadlock and political crisis.
See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/opinion/turkeys-good-governance-referendum.html for the entire article.
