RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN
July/August 2013
For the neo-Ottoman Turkish Prime Minister, the project for Gezi Park is an iconic step towards the return of a muscular Islamic state
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December 2012
The nominally secular Turkish state has distanced itself from its erstwhile alliance with Israel. The region is now on the brink
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October 2011
‘Turkey’s decision to escalate tensions with Israel is an effort to reassert itself as the leader of a neo-Ottoman Empire’
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May 2011
Erdogan's Islamist party is capitalising on the disunity of its opposition — and engaging in novel approaches to buying votes — as it steamrolls to another election victory
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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