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Erdogan’s battle for Turkey’s soul

6 March 2024

1:00 AM

6 March 2024

1:00 AM

‘I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,’ Shakespeare’s Mark Antony declared, before gradually inviting the bloodthirsty crowd before him to lament the loss of Rome’s great general. One senses that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is attempting an inversion of this famous sleight of hand, each time he insists upon his reverence for Turkey’s own military-cum-political leader, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, before extolling the virtues of the very principles Atatürk fought so hard to eradicate.

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