After the earthquake, EU must confront Erdoğan's failures

Two decades of autocratic rule have both augmented the devastation by Turkey's earthquake and weakened the government's response to it.

While the EU rushes to provide emergency and reconstruction support, it should question Turkey's autocratic credentials as the cause for this failure.

In 1755, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the city of Lisbon, killing nearly 40,000 of its 275,000 inhabitants, and d...