Turkish intellectual Kavala, Erodgan’s unlikely sworn foe
Osman Kavala, sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, has been thrust from relative obscurity into a symbol of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s intolerance of dissent in the wake of a failed 2016 coup. Bearded, tender-spoken, and gaunt, the 64-yr-old intellectual’s destiny modified the instant he landed in Istanbul from … Read more