Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu claimed on Wednesday that the plans to switch from a parliamentary to a presidential system would not turn Turkey into a "dictatorship" under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<br />Erdogan has steered the country from being largely secular to being ever increasingly Islamist , a point Russian President Vladimir Putin recently noted in vowing not to reconcile over Ankara's shooting down a Russian jet on the Syrian border.<br />Turkey has also increasingly cracked down on the press, on social media by shuttering Twitter and Facebook at several junctures, and even cracking down on criticism of its leader, with a doctor recently facing jailtime for comparing Erdogan to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings movies.
