As President Donald Trump has his tweets, the leader of Turkey has his speeches. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes up to three every weekday – "two a day on weekends" – and his charismatic, combative talks are the primary vehicle of his success.

​He calls democracy advocates "marauders". He mocks the German Foreign Minister as a "disaster". He is as comfortable in the vernacular as he is reciting poetry. He takes on his enemies publicly by name, pivoting seamlessly from pious to pushy.