Power in Turkey: Islamist power struggle returns to the pitch
By James M. Dorsey
The opening of a court case against Turkish soccer star Hakan Sukur on charges of insulting the president takes Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s autocratic ambitions back to their origins: an Islamist power struggle with exiled preacher Fethullalh Gulen that erupted five years ago on the pitch.
A soccer player-turned-politician who in 2011 was el…