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Watch: Turkish journalist explains the seven steps of moving from a ‘democracy to dictatorship’

Ece Temelkuran had said that she was fired from a Turkish television channel in 2012 for being critical of the government.

Scroll Staff
Jan 10, 2020 · 08:16 am

How to lose a country — The seven steps from democracy to dictatorship.
People will say: “It wouldn’t happen here”
Don’t worry.
I know it can because it happened to us.
It happened to me.
By @ETemelkuran pic.twitter.com/6aCAhxTw8T

— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) July 25, 2019
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