One embraces chaos and glorifies Turkey's Islamic past. The other promises the badly divided country a slightly calmer and more prosperous future. ManilaBulletin
One embraces chaos and glorifies Turkey's Islamic past. The other promises the badly divided country a slightly calmer and more prosperous future.
Erdogan is the man who rose from a hardscrabble part of Istanbul to become Turkey's longest-serving leader -- a devout 69-year-old who has created chronic headaches for the West and become a hero for Turkey's working classes. He has overseen economic booms and busts while adhering to an Islamic vision of a great Turkey that is ready to go to war to defend its national interests.His interventions in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh swung the outcomes of complex conflicts involving the interests of traditional great powers.
He would start by moving the presidency out of the 1,100-room marble palace that Erdogan erected in Ankara and back into the more humble abode used by Ataturk.It is a promise that has captivated the youth and a cross-section of Turks exhausted by Erdogan's culture wars and polarising rhetoric.
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