By bne IntelIiNews Turkey’s political opposition is “sitting around and twiddling its thumbs”, even though the country is “rapidly declining as a functioning state”. So contends Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) analyst Sinan Ciddi, who asks how that can be in a nation that “has gone from being an imperfect democracy to an autocratic wasteland” and is to hold parliamentary and presidential elections by June next year. Ciddi, in an October 20 article for The National Interest, warns that a victory for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2023 “will solidify his hold on Turkey and will fu…