CLAIRE BERLINSKI: Turkey And The Fear Society.

Erdoğan has begun pressing charges against bloggers whose writings meet with his displeasure. A 22-year-old college student, Barış Ünver, could face two years in prison for intimating that Erdoğan was “the soul mate” of PKK terrorist Ocalan.

Powerful autocrats going after their critics? Good thing that could never happen here.