It’s now the country’s biggest single political movement, with a surge of online participation and votes in the March election, especially in the south. But it doesn’t have consistent policies, it contradicts itself in action, and its hands aren’t totally clean.

Turkey’s president has made an alliance with the ultranationalist far-right MHP, ahead of the next elections. He can still count on his AKP supporters but other voters are slipping away.

In central and eastern Europe, perceptions of corruption can be greater than reality. In western Europe, the opposite is true.