There Was Once a Dream That Was the Turkish Republic - War on the Rocks

THERE WAS ONCE A DREAM THAT WAS THE TURKISH REPUBLIC SELIM KORUOCTOBER 25, 2021 COMMENTARY Elections in Turkey are scheduled for June 2023, the centenary of the Republic. It’s a nice symbolic year, and the government of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has quite the show planned for its voters: an indigenous electric car, a sleek new fighter jet, a nuclear power plant, and the launch of Turkey’s first space mission. Erdoğan is also going ahead with his “crazy project” to dig a whole new waterway through Istanbul. He is proud of the economic growth the country has clocked in during the pandemic, and is determined to see Turkey into the world’s top 10 economies in his lifetime. More:There Was Once a Dream That Was the Turkish Republic - War on the Rocks