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‘The Century of Turkey’ Is In The Making – OpEd – Eurasia Review
‘The Century of Turkey’ Is In The Making – OpEd
May 31, 2023 Eurasia Review 0 Comments
By Lorenzo Somigli
Two different political options for crisis periods
The Turkish people voted and reconfirmed their trust in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s imperial vision. Contrary to what so many Western media described, the clash between the two candidates was not between “Right” and “Left”, between “conservation” and “progress”, or between “Islam” and “Kemalism”. This interpretative apparatus does not capture the “Turkish prism” in all its complexity and gradients; on the contrary, it offers a distorted and banal image.
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