Recep Erdoğan, And The Rwandan Genocide

A more recent example of visionary leadership teaming up with an effective civil service to transform a country comes from Turkey, where Recep Tayyip Erdoğan served as the prime minister from 2003 to 2014 and is currently serving as president since 2014. Through forceful leadership and sound economic policies, Erdoğan has fostered entrepreneurial dynamism, catalyzed rapid economic growth, and catapulted the country into the global limelight after a long period of decline. Turkey, the proud heir to the Ottoman Empire, one of the most powerful empires in human history, is finally beginning to fulfill its potential and becoming a force to be reckoned with. The Turkish renaissance is perhaps best epitomized by the emergence of Turkish Airline as Europe’s top airline. Closely related to that, Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has emerged as a global air hub, one of the best-connected airports in the world with flights to all corners of the world. It is true that a sharp slowdown of growth since the global crisis, growing authoritarianism, festering Kurdish insurgency, and a coup attempt is taking some shine off the Turkish miracle but nevertheless, in the broader scheme of themes, Erdoğan made Turkey relevant again…