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
and shut down all political parties. erdogan grew up understanding the golden rule of turkish politics. never cross the military. three years after the coup, the militaryjunta finally steps aside and allows the political process to resume. the islamist party erdogan supported before the coup is reborn as the refah, or welfare party. erdogan started out trying to build his name within istanbul politics and the first time that he ran for election was in the late 19805 and he tried to get a parliamentary seat. didn t manage to do that. then his real breakthrough comes in the 1994 local elections here in istanbul.
it wasn t only about gezi park now. it was about free speech. it was about expressing yourself. at one point i thought it might result in the downfall of the government, but that was a very, very short moment, of course. but that was the time, first and the last time, probably, erdogan was really afraid. he was terrified.
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.