His father said, no. You have to go and study at this Religious School i and you have to be a good boy. So, a completely authoritarian. Figure who shaped erdogans life away from what erdogan had wanted to become. Erdogans family were religious but modern turkey had largely been ruled by the Secular Elite. So, the Young Erdogan was made to feel like a Second Class Citizen for his faith. He felt stigmatised i that he was studying at a Religious School. So, i think at every stage in his upbringing, as a teenager and in his earlyl years, in his 20s, erdogan felt profoundly othered in a society that was formally secularist,. And i think he has a grudge against the system to this day. When he was growing up, i he was exposed to wealth and privilege, and he realised that people who had economic power. Were also people who promoted the idea of a secular society. They chant in turkish driven by this sense of injustice, erdogan joins the Islamist National Salvation Party in the mid 19705. They c
his father said, no. you have to go and study at this religious school i and you have to be a good boy. so, a completely authoritarian . figure who shaped erdogan s life away from what erdogan had wanted to become. - erdogan s family were religious but modern turkey had largely been ruled by the secular elite. so, the young erdogan was made to feel like a second class citizen for his faith. he felt stigmatised i that he was studying at a religious school. so, i think at every- stage in his upbringing, as a teenager and in his earlyl years, in his 20s, erdogan felt profoundly othered in a society that was formally secularist, . and i think he has a grudge - against the system to this day. when he was growing up, i he was exposed to wealth and privilege, and he realised that people who had economic power. were also people who promoted the idea of a secular society. . they chant in turkish driven by this sense of injustice, erdogan joins the islamist national salvation party i
how close they came to catastrophe. you ll hear the urgent calls from air traffic control. the black boxes found after the passenger plane crash that killed at least 69 in nepal. the final moments caught on camera. the search tonight for answers. the death toll growing in one of the worst russian strikes on civilians since the war in ukraine began. italy s most wanted man captured. how a notorious mafia boss was found hiding in plain sight after 30 years on the run. and honoring a civil rights icon. the images from across the country on this martin luther king jr. day. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. california tonight suffering the effects of its tenth consecutive storm. weeks of rain from an atmospheric river undermining roads. some crumbling right before the eyes of horrified onlookers. saturated hillsides turning to mudslides. the round of storms now blamed for the deaths of at least 22 people. search and rescue
inside the car where istanbul s deputy chief of police, a beauty queen, a nationalist mp in charge of a private army in the kurdish region and a mafia kingpin. the crash revealed that government figures were using the mafia to do its dirty work in a war against kurdish separatists in the southeast of turkey. now erdogan uses this association to go after his enemies in the military. he enlists the help of a controversial cleric called fethullah gulen.
italy s prime minister calling it a hard blow to organized crime. messina denaro was tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia to life in prison 20 years ago for the murders of anti-mafia prosecutors in 1992, deadly bomb attacks in milan, florence and rome a year later, and the kidnapping, torture and murder of a 12-year-old boy. prosecutors say they recently learned messdenaro was ill and tracked him to the clinic in palermo where he was being treated under an alias. his health issue forced him to come out in the open, the palermo prosecutor said, adding he didn t look like a broken man and was wearing a $37,000 watch. his rest comes after the capture of another mob boss, rocco morabito, in brazil last year after 28 years on the run. investigators say messina denaro is being questioned at a secret location tonight. they re hopingfter