Dictators don't care about their country's prospects, only their own, their kin and their lackeys. Mugabe, Kim Jong-Un, those of the *stans - all are doing very well for themselves.
"those of the *stans" is a slur against the population of entire linguistic family
I read somewhere that the Turkish ruling party said it themselves: "The higher the education level, the less they vote for us." How can you expect them to educate people modernly after that?
You read it wrong: the ruling party has the highest percentage of PhDs, Masters and undergraduates than any party.
Do you have any source for this? In my personal experience, most well educated people are not voting AKP.
That was in the past... This is a new century. That is why these academics are so uneasy-- they are not doing science, instead, hoping salvation from military coups.