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Engin Önder is a Turkish journalist. He started the Twitter-account 140journos, which has evolved into a channel of politically engaged criticism. He also is the founder of the Institute for Creative Minds, an interdisciplinary collective from Istanbul that aims to reform civil society through art, design and social innovation.
Erdogan is all too easily labelled a populist. But the reasons for his popularity are more complicated.
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