Holy crap. Swap out a few words here and there, and this article might as well be about trump’s America:

European leaders may recoil at the Turkish president’s outbursts this week - labelling the Dutch and German governments “Nazis” and “fascists” - but here, in his conservative, religious heartland, Recep Tayyip Erdogan can do no wrong.
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What of his inflammatory rhetoric against Europe, I asked?

“I condemn Holland and Germany too,” she replied. “They don’t have a conscience.”

Standing beside her, pensioner Esma Koc chimed in: “Whatever he says is right - on every subject. If he appears to make a mistake, he must know something we don’t. What would we have done if he hadn’t existed?”
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President Erdogan has repeatedly won at the ballot box and could once again in four weeks.

But the country he’s leading - a crucial Nato member and EU candidate - is dangerously polarised and, after this week, sliding ever further from Europe.