Attacks against Christians have increased since the ouster two years ago of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
There is the lingering fear that Mr Erdogan is an autocrat in the making.
But Indonesia's onetime autocrat has been far busier than most of his countrymen realize.
That would go far towards dispelling fears that he is at heart an autocrat.
Of course, there is no appeal to the TSA autocrat who has the power to interrupt your transit.
Rich in resources and education, Russia is still in thrall to an autocrat and outdated political and economic institutions.
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SADC's leaders, especially its younger ones, are increasingly loth to see their region dragged down by an ageing autocrat.
We easily infer that a competent autocrat can learn to become more collaborative.
In refusing, Mr Kasparov adopted a high-minded tone, complaining that a new chess autocrat was dumping a glorious tradition.
Old autocrat that he is, Mr Arafat is unlikely to be so democratic.
In an interview with this correspondent, he freely bestowed smiles (and dried fruit) as he insisted he was no autocrat.
But after reacting slowly to popular movements against erstwhile autocrat chums, America wisely cut loose its Egyptian ally, Hosni Mubarak.
That was when, suddenly, the Bush administration discovered that Putin was not a hard-nosed reformer but a rapacious and dastardly autocrat.
The bad news is that SandRidge founder and CEO Tom Ward (also a CHK co-founder) continues presiding unchecked as an autocrat.
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It recovered democracy in 2000, after the resignation of Mr Fujimori, who had governed for a decade as an elected autocrat.
In Venezuela , another elected autocrat, Hugo Chavez, is turning his oil-rich nation into an engine for regional instability and anti-American policies.
He addressed the view of Chavez as an autocrat and inept leader who left Venezuela worse off than when he assumed power.
Either way, it leaves an impression that the ageing autocrat is losing control not only of the economy, but of his family.
Since then, angry protesters have persistently, and sometimes violently, demanded that the old autocrat be brought to justice for his alleged misdeeds.
Mr Barak has emerged from the negotiations with his reputation confirmed as a somewhat aloof and distant autocrat, disarmingly clever and disquietingly mysterious.
Mubarak has always been an autocrat and the West had no problem supporting him until his massive unpopularity made the entire arrangement unsustainable.
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Yet whether he does or not, the most secure autocrat in the Arab world is now gone after almost 30 years in power.
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If you are an autocrat but want to run a system of sham democracy, it is a boon if the opposition is divided.
The only real outrage has come from Shiro Takashima, the 83-year-old autocrat who has dominated the nation's ports for the past two decades.
In Pakistan it isn't clear how this will play out because the country is still essentially ruled by a military autocrat in General Musharraf.
In Belarus, rows with the Kremlin over energy are the most likely source of trouble for the regime of the eccentric autocrat, Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
For ten years, he has ruled as an autocrat, against weak opposition, delivering economic stability and building roads, schools and clinics in poor communities.
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Tough choices for an autocrat, but by opting for the latter, Kim Jong Il has probably given himself at least a fighting chance for survival.
Indeed, in a recent poll Mr Wahid was judged less popular than ex-President Suharto, the autocrat who suppressed and plundered the country for three decades.
In 2003, the aging autocrat collapsed while delivering a televised speech to the Egyptian parliament -- returning later to blame his illness on the flu.
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