Also on the daily podcast: Ataturk’s legacy as Turkey turns 100 and Canada’s time-marking “long dash” goes silent
The long-anticipated invasion is not the expected blitzkrieg; we ask how a longer, more cautious war will be fought. Kemal Ataturk is still wildly popular a century after he founded modern Turkey—so instead of undoing his legacy, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is simply claiming it . And an ode to Canada’s “long dash”, a time-marking tradition that has now gone silent .
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