Turkey Turned Into ‘Middle-Earth’ Under Erdogan, Opposition Says
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Turkish politics is having another run-in with the inhabitants of “Middle-earth.”
Meral Aksener, leader of the opposition Iyi Party, has invoked British author J.R.R. Tolkien and his epic fantasy novel “the Lord of the Rings” in rounding on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s almost absolute grip on power.