Let's provide the most important answer right away – yes, it was! Who is Tayyip Erdoğan, anyway?  Before anything else, he is a hardcore Islamist who dreams of transforming Turkey into a jihadist state.  He is also the man who informed his people a long time ago that if democracy is the destination of a train ride, the traveler (whose name is Erdoğan, of course) can get off the train at any station he chooses. The extremely important referendum designed to determine the future of Turkey ended with Erdoğan's declaration that he had won the majority of the vote.  The U.S. Department of State granted recognition to Erdoğan's claim that it was he who won the support of the Turkish people. The Turkish statesman also declared that his alleged victory had been achieved by a slim majority, but nevertheless, the voters had supported his decision to concentrate the entire quantity of real power in his hands.  The opposition, meanwhile, refused...(Read Full Article)