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Sto caricando le informazioni... Erdogan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkeydi Hannah Lucinda Smith
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. It's surprising that more hasn't been written about developments over the last 20 years in Turkey, specifically, about Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The nation, with 85 million people, is the 17th largest economy in the world, and politically central in a highly divisive neighborhood. This book steps up to the plate: the author reported for the Times of London for many years, and has a deep knowledge and understanding of the country. She is balanced on a subject that tends to evoke strong passions one way or another, and she illustrates her story with vivid descriptions of interviews with ordinary Turks. Well worth reading. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Who is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how did he lead a democracy on the fringe of Europe into dictatorship? How has chaos in the Middle East blown back over Turkey's borders? And why doesn't the West just cut Erdogan and his regime off. Hannah Lucinda Smith has been living in Turkey as the Times correspondent for nearly a decade, reporting on the ground from the onset of the Arab Spring through terrorist attacks, mass protests, civil war, unprecedented refugee influx and the explosive, bloody 2016 coup attempt that threatened to topple - and kill - Erdogan. Erdogan Rising introduces Turkey as a vital country, one that borders and buffers Western Europe, the Middle East and the old Soviet Union, marshals the second largest army in NATO and hosts more refugees than any other nation. We are introduced to Erdogan as the face of devotion and division, a leader who mastered macho divide-and-rule politics a decade and a half before Donald Trump cottoned on, and has used it to lead his country into spiralling authoritarianism. Yet Erdogan is no ordinary dictator. His elections are won only by slivers, and Turkey remains defined and divided by its two warring cults: those who worship Erdogan, the wilful Muslim nationalist with a tightening authoritarian grip, and those who fly fierce flags for Ataturk, the secularist, westward-looking leader who founded the Republic and remains its best loved icon - now eighty years dead. Erdogan commands a following so devoted they compose songs in his honour, adorn their homes with his picture, and lay down their lives to keep him in power. Erdogan Rising asks how this century's most successful populist won his position, and where Turkey is headed next. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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