There is nothing quite as alarming as an autocrat in search of friends.
Bullish Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife used to holiday with Bashar and Asma
Assad until, it is said, Turkish intelligence intercepted an email from
London-educated Mrs Assad to her husband. She complained that Turkey’s leader
was a thug who had read only one book, while his wife was a shopaholic. Well,
Asma knows a bit about thugs and indeed about shopping, but those cosy
vacations stopped soon afterwards.
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