Erdogan, Trailing in Polls, Shows Off His Collection of Scissors

In the almost two decades that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled Turkey, he’s poured tens of billions of dollars into giant infrastructure projects to cement popular support while he tightened his grip on the country.

Now an exhibition at the presidential palace in Ankara that opened Friday seeks to burnish that image of the 67-year-old, who’s been trailing in opinion polls as the country remains in the grip of economic turmoil.