Why did Erdoğan win?
The LRB Podcast
The Symbolism of the 28th May
Turkish nationalism is sacrosanct in its Ottoman flavors the Adonis champion. Both secularists and Islamist factions in Turkish politics both claimed legitimacy through Ozerik's name only they allied themselves with a very different version of Ozerik when they did so. He was then the sort of unitry emblem the umbrella discourse in which all claims to nation and nationalism had to take place.
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