For several years, Erdoğan has been accused of rising authoritarianism, and some argue this is more of the same.
In recent months, he has come under attack at home for violently dispersing protests focused on what critics called his rising authoritarianism.
But it has become closely intertwined with the broader complaints of demonstrators fighting what they see as the rising authoritarianism of the Turkish government.
But the movement quickly attracted other disillusioned Turks, who have chafed at what they viewed as the government's rising authoritarianism, and the movement evolved into a broader challenge to Mr. Erdogan's government.
Still, if he decides to veto the bill, he will be seen as having held the line against rising authoritarianism — a role that critics of the A.K.P. have been projecting upon him ever since last summer, when he responded to the anti-Erdoğan protests in Gezi Park in a relatively conciliatory manner.
But as the government began bulldozing trees, it came to symbolize for thousands of aggrieved citizens the hubris and rising authoritarianism of a government now in power for more than a decade and determined to forge ahead with the even more controversial mosque project.
