Huffington Post Headline, July 20.
"Turkey's Elected Dictator"

"Even before the failed military coup, Turkey's President Erdogan governed like a dictator who had the last word on all state matters. The botched coup was nothing but, as he put it, "a gift from God" to purge what is left of Turkey's democracy and cleanse the army and judiciary in order to ensure the total subordination of all institutions to his whims.

For Erdogan, being elected was akin to being granted a license to trample and dismantle all democratic tenets to consolidate his powers and promote his Islamic agenda."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alon-benmeir/turkeys-elected-dictator_b_11093160.html

Speigel, July22,
"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking advantage of last week's failed coup to consolidate his power. As the country slides into a dictatorship, there is a lot at stake for the West. But the effects in Turkey itself promise to be far greater. By SPIEGEL Staff"
(The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 30/2016 (July 23rd, 2016) of DER SPIEGEL.)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/coup-in-turkey-leads-to-erdogan-power-grab-a-1104261.html