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Erdogan's War on Ataturk's Legacy


(Hudson Institute) Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby - Erdogan hopes to bulldoze the modern legacy of Ataturk, amend Turkey's constitution to create a presidency more powerful than even Ataturk ever held and then restore the glory of Ottoman Turkey and the caliphate that once bound the Sunni Islamic world together. Erdogan and his AK Party's leadership invoke their neo-Ottoman aims regularly. Hillel Fradkin is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where Lewis Libby is a senior vice president.
2013-06-28 00:00:00
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