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Recep Erdoğan’s war on history

21 March 2019

5:28 PM

21 March 2019

5:28 PM

The most touching, if not confronting, memorial at Anzac Cove is the sandstone plinth inscribed with words attributed to Kemal Ataturk.

He was the architect of Turkish military victory at Gallipoli in 1915, an ardent if not ruthless nationalist later regarded as the founder of an enlightened modern Turkey, which existed until the rise of the present regime.

He is therefore also the architect of the demise of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, who deposed and exiled the ruling Caliph, a role some wish to see revived and which some particular individuals now covet.

There are certainly wars being waged under multiple Muslim brands...

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