Erdoğan

By using the police, judiciary and the threat of imprisonment to silence internal opposition, Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is seeking to revive the 'Ottoman fantasy' and to reinvent, bit by bit, the Turkish state established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In this, Erdoğan, the leader of the country's Justice and Development Party (AKP), has the unconditional backing of both Turkish nationalists and Islamists. The aims of this new regime are clear: to re-establish the historic power of ...
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