Op-Ed: Erdogan the Magnificent, Turkey's Neo-Ottoman Revival
Military.com 13 Mar 2018 By Joseph V. Micallef
Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker.
In 1994, an aspiring Turkish politician named Recep Tayyip Erdogan leveraged his fame as a player for Istanbul's Kasimpasa Soccer Club into a successful run for mayor of Istanbul as a candidate of the Islamist Welfare Party.
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