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Friday, September 05, 2014

Erdogan seeks to break links with Turkey’s past - FT.com

Erdogan seeks to break links with Turkey’s past

By Daniel Dombey in IstanbulAuthor alerts

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is making his mark as Turkey’s first directly elected president barely a week after taking the oath of office.

The former prime minister is already shifting Turkey away from customs acquired over the nine decades since the end of the Ottoman Empire, a period in which largely secularist elites held sway.

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