Europe once again at a crossroads - Turkey goes to the polls

Turkey goes to the polls on Sunday in what seems, in the broadest terms, another battle between deep-rooted conservatism and, again in the broadest of broad terms, secular(ish) liberalism. Just as in nearly every country that holds credible elections today, the old and the new collide.

It was always been thus but, almost uniquely today, those disagreements seem increasingly unbridgeable. The response of some of those who campaigned to keep the Eighth Amendment suggests they feel they have become victims of this negative, triumphalist dynamic. This cannot enhance our democracy.