The present sultan does not believe in democracy, and is an autocrat at best.
The trouble is that too often the professionals have become autocrats rather than advisers.
He is, of course, an autocrat in this matter.
It is a plan to impose conformity, so dear to the heart of the autocrat.
He has become in a sense a great dictator and a great autocrat.
They have always supported any reactionary general any militarist, any autocrat or reformed brigand, or unreformed, as the ease may be.
He now intends to rule as an autocrat for three years.
As a result, autocrats must consider how the policies they choose will be received by those groups in society that can pose a credible threat of unrest.