The Beginning of the End for Erdogan’s Misrule of Turkey?

On Sunday, Turkish voters handed President Erdogan his first, stinging rebuke in the sixteen years since he began transforming his country into a Sharia-supremacist Caliphate.

In local elections across the country, opposition candidates ran against Erdogan’s economic and political policies, winning key positions – including the mayor’s job in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, and possibly in Istanbul, its largest city. If not stolen by the regime, these victories offer an opening for a much-needed national course-correction.

The stakes are high, not least for the United States. For decades, Turkey’s been a reliable NATO ally in a dangerous part of the world, but no more. Successive U.S. administrations have ignored at our peril Erdogan’s embrace of Iran, Russia, China, the Muslim Brotherhood and its jihadist ilk.

Maybe, just maybe, though, Turkey will now begin freeing itself from Erdogan’s misrule, and fully rejoin our team.