Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who's in D.C. for the Nuclear Security Summit, gave a speech at the Brookings Institution yesterday that was the scene of violent clashes between protesters and Turkish security. The Hill: Critics of Erdoğan have accused him of turning into an increasingly authoritarian leader who clamps down on the press to cement his grip on power. Erdoğan rejected the criticism on Thursday, claiming that any crackdown on journalists was because they were “terrorists” affiliated with the PKK or other groups. “Inside Turkey’s prisons there are no prisoners who have been incarcerated or sentenced to imprisonment due to their profession or due to their freedom of expression rights,” he said. “Criticism I have no problems with nobody whatsoever. But when it comes to insult and defamation of course I have problems,” Erdoğan added. “If they were to insult me,...(Read Full Post)