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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, ....
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 p ....
Erdogan knows he needs allies in the upper ranks of the security services and the judiciary. ..and fethullah gulen is looking for a political partner to take on the secular elite, so they make a deal. in 2007, tuncay ozkan was working as a journalist investigating the extent to which followers of fethullah gulen, or gulenists, had infiltrated all the different branches of government. ....
As Turkey heads for presidential and parliamentary elections at the weekend that are shaping up to be the strongest challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his 20 years as leader, complaints are growing about the fairness of the vote. Turkey’s opposition has long said that the country’s elections are played out on an unequal… ....
French President Emmanuel Macron led the traditional ceremony on Paris’ Champs-Elysees Monday, commemorating the day that marked the end of World War II in Europe in 1945. Flanked by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, Macron laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe monument. A brass band played the Marseillaise. To limit disruptions amid ongoing opposition to Macron and his contested pension reforms, police banned gatherings around the area of the ceremony in the French capital, and in Lyon where the president traveled later in the day. ....