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Op-Ed: Erdogan the Magnificent, Turkey's Neo-Ottoman Revival | Military.com

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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