Recep Tayyip Erdogan

: That became painfully evident after the party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a majority last Sunday in Turkey second national election this year, according to Globe and Mail. You could watch his country, and the region around it, begin to shatter into monochromatic fragments. In 2015, we are witnessing a startling reversal of this pattern, as the West continues to become more polyglot and diverse, while the Middle East is descending into a fragmented array of ethnically and religiously homogeneous states and regions. In the first election, in June, Mr. In response, he led a campaign of harsh ethnic division, fear and repression, obliterating the gains he had made a decade earlier toward making Turkey recognize its multiethnic identity . Any hope that this was just a re-election ploy were dashed this week when Mr. Erdogan was deprived of a majority by the Kurdish-dominated HDP party. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.