Erdogan's Empire

Erdogan's Empire

by Soner Cagaptay

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"Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan -- the first biography of President Erdogan -- provides a masterful overview of the power politics in the Middle East and Turkey's place in it. Erdogan has picked an unorthodox model in the context of rece

ISBN: 9780755634774

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Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria

Media & Journalism

"This is the best book on Turkey today. Well-written, with good, short sections on the country's past, that then shed light on its present."

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