"What do Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have in common? Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The 1923 revolution introduced the coercive powers of the state in line with young Mustafa Kemal’s semiotic faith. Today, the counter-revolution is slowly but systematically introducing similarly coercive powers, not necessarily of the state, but surely of an increasingly conservative society, in line with Tayyip Erdoğan’s semiotic faith."
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