He couldn’t stop smiling for a long time as he looked at the cheering crowd in front of him. The man who won Turkey’s presidential elections for the third time on Sunday, May 28, has shown a keen sense of politics throughout his life. cv At 69 years old, he was able to impose his own words, feel the zeitgeist like no one else, and stick to his beliefs in the moment. By assuming the mantle of head of state again, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in power since 2003, realizes that he has reached a unique milestone in Turkey’s turbulent young history. are doing.
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The passage of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, as well as the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, was held on October 29, 1923 by the late Mustafa Kemal, a child of this nation, as he often expressed himself. It’s his. Ataturk is the “Father of the Turks” and “the one and only.” “We have opened the door of the century,” he said to applause, and his election victory marked the beginning of a battle waged “together” against opposition forces, traitors, foreign media, the LGBT community and everyone else. He said that it was thanks to Here and everywhere they set traps and pitfalls. He repeated, “Thank God I was born to lead this people.” And above all, “As I have always said, this blissful procession will never stop; I will go to the grave with you.”
The president has been eyeing 2023 for a long time. He also occasionally mentions 2053, the 600th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople, and 2071, the millennium of the Seljuks’ arrival in Anatolia. But this centenary day has become his mantra, and that sacred formula has endured through a dizzying economic crisis, a devastating earthquake, increasingly sharp criticism of his authoritarian tendencies, and finally, for the first time ever, a run-off. Even with the re-election that resulted in a vote, it remained largely intact.
This was a date associated with the Ottoman tradition, but it was too quickly sidelined by the Kemalist government and its prosperityists. This day allowed for a far-reaching reinterpretation of history and fostered a new national narrative that is very dear to President Erdoğan, according to which Turkey will play a leading role in cooperation between nations. It is said that it will become. “The Turkish Century is a roadmap to raise our country above the level of modern civilization,” the president’s website said just hours after the re-elected leader’s speech.
Beyond Ataturk
This says it all. Since his inauguration, the Turkish president has gradually added an ideological anchor to his early pragmatism, a form of mystical metaphysics that is both deeply desired and intensely expressed. . Celebrating the genius of Turkey and Islam, reinstating certain figures of the sultan and republic, rediscovering the memory of the empire’s past, condemning the colonialist West: For many years, Erdoğan has wielded formidable soft power. In other words, they have introduced a narrative that mobilizes the people. A dramatic rendition of a national story and a desire for renewal inspired by the neo-Ottoman Empire. It is an almost organic amalgamation of politics, ideology, and history, clearly to the detriment of the latter. On October 9, two days after the Hamas attack on Israel, the president said that since the Ottoman Empire withdrew from the region during World War I, Palestine had become a place of tension, tear, occupation and suffering. advocated publicly.
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