About the Authors
![Aykan Erdemir](https://insidesources.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/erdemir.jpeg)
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.
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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