Sunday Dec 22, 2024

Turkey: from Ataturk to Erdogan

Turkey straddles many worlds: Europe and Asia, a Christian world and the Islamic world, the West and the Russian Federation. In the aftermath of WW1, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the creator of modern Turkey, created a secular Turkey out of the old Ottoman Empire.  Today, Erdogan's Turkey has placed Islam back at the centre of Turkish life. So, this episode tries to explain how we got from Ataturk to Erdogan. And just how how that journey has changed Turkey. With all that's going on in Ukraine and the Middle East, its an important episode.

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