About the Authors
Aykan Erdemir
Aykan Erdemir is senior director of the Turkey program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former member of the Turkish parliament. Twitter: @aykan_erdemir. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
Ryan Brobst
Ryan Brobst is a research analyst at the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He wrote this for InsideSources.com
