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A Glimpse Into the Next Decade of Erdogan’s ‘New Turkey’
Upon winning his second term as president in June, and assuming the strong executive powers that had been approved by voters in a 2017 referendum, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cemented what he had long been seeking: the creation of a…
- Sinan Ciddi
- Stratfor
The “new Turkey,” as Erdogan calls it, is a country fast becoming insular and inward-looking.
From Erdogan’s perspective, Turkey’s founding elite of the 1920s created a state, society and culture fashioned according to the preferences of one man, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
So why shouldn’t he try to do the same and fashion a…