Erdogan's Empire
Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East
by Soner Cagaptay
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan the first biography of President Erdogan provides ...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
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Fareed Zakaria
“This is the best book on Turkey today. Wellwritten, with good, short sections on the country's past, that then shed light on its present.”
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