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Erdogan Rising
Author: Hannah Lucinda Smith
Narrator: Hannah Lucinda Smith
Unabridged: 14 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: William Collins
Published: 09/05/2019
Synopsis
‘Essential reading for anyone interested in Turkey and its future.’ ‘Essential reading full stop.’ Peter Frankopan ‘It is a must.’ Who is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how did he lead a democracy on the fringe of Europe into dictatorship? How has chaos in the Middle East blown back over Turkey’s borders? And why doesn’t the West just cut Erdogan and his regime off? Hannah Lucinda Smith has been living in Turkey as the correspondent for nearly a decade, reporting on the ground from the onset of the Arab Spring through terrorist attacks, mass protests, civil war, unprecedented refugee influx and the explosive, bloody 2016 coup attempt that threatened to topple – and kill – Erdogan. Erdogan Rising Yet Erdogan is no ordinary dictator. His elections are won only by slivers, and Turkey remains defined by its two warring cults: those who worship Erdogan, the wilful Muslim nationalist with a tightening authoritarian grip, and those who stand behind Ataturk, the secularist, westward-looking leader who founded the republic and remains its best loved icon – now eighty years dead. Erdogan commands a following so devoted they compose songs in his honour, adorn their homes with his picture, and lay down their lives to keep him in power. asks how this century’s most successful populist won his position, and where Turkey is headed next.