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Erdogan Rising - The Battle for the Soul of Turkey (Hardcover)
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Erdogan Rising - The Battle for the Soul of Turkey (Hardcover)
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'Essential reading for anyone interested in Turkey and its future.'
Literary Review 'Essential reading full stop.' Peter Frankopan 'It
is a must.' The Times Who is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how did he
lead a democracy on the fringe of Europe into dictatorship? How has
chaos in the Middle East blown back over Turkey's borders? And why
doesn't the West just cut Erdogan and his regime off? Hannah
Lucinda Smith has been living in Turkey as the Times correspondent
for nearly a decade, reporting on the ground from the onset of the
Arab Spring through terrorist attacks, mass protests, civil war,
unprecedented refugee influx and the explosive, bloody 2016 coup
attempt that threatened to topple - and kill - Erdogan. Erdogan
Rising introduces Turkey as a vital country, one that borders and
buffers Western Europe, the Middle East and the old Soviet Union,
marshals the second largest army in NATO and hosts more refugees
than any other nation. As president, Erdogan is the face of
devotion and division, a leader who mastered macho divide-and-rule
politics a decade and a half before Donald Trump cottoned on, and
has used it to lead his country into spiralling authoritarianism.
Yet Erdogan is no ordinary dictator. His elections are won only by
slivers, and Turkey remains defined by its two warring cults: those
who worship Erdogan, the wilful Muslim nationalist with a
tightening authoritarian grip, and those who stand behind Ataturk,
the secularist, westward-looking leader who founded the republic
and remains its best loved icon - now eighty years dead. Erdogan
commands a following so devoted they compose songs in his honour,
adorn their homes with his picture, and lay down their lives to
keep him in power. Erdogan Rising asks how this century's most
successful populist won his position, and where Turkey is headed
next.
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