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How New Is Turkey's 'New Nationalism'? - Center for American Progress

How New Is Turkey’s ‘New Nationalism’?
By Howard Eissenstat Posted on February 14, 2018, 9:04 am

For both Turkey’s allies in the West and the beleaguered domestic opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s autocratic rule, there is a powerful sense that Turkey has gone off the rails—that the old certainties of Turkish identity are fundamentally changing. If traditional Turkish foreign and domestic policies were notable for their aversion to risk, Erdoğan seems determined to remake Turkey and its place in the world. In many ways, Islam has been central to this effort.

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