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Hannah Smith Lucinda. Erdogan Rising
ERDOĞAN RISING. The Battle for the Soul of Turkey. Hannah Lucinda Smith
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
MAPS
CAST OF CHARACTERS
ACRONYMS
TIMELINE
INTRODUCTION. July 2016
1. TWO TURKEYS, TWO TRIBES. July 2017 Coup anniversary
The Justice March
The rivals
2. SYRIA: THE BACKSTORY. April 2011 Damascus, Syria
February 2013 Free Syria
Summer 2013 Rebel-held Aleppo
Turkey’s cults
3. BUILDING BRAND ERDOĞAN
The speechwriter
Jail time
The ad man
The rebels
4. ERDOĞAN AND FRIENDS. The diaspora
The new Muslim middle class
The Gülenists
The liberals
The scandal
5. SYRIA: THE WAR NEXT DOOR
Ahmet Davutoğlu: the ideologue
Assad’s Syria
2011–2013 Syria’s descent
Isis rises
May 2013 Erdoğan goes to Washington
May–June 2013 Gezi uprising
The West changes course in Syria
6. THE EXODUS. February 2015 Mersin
The activists
Summer 2015 The refugee highway
The shores
The smuggling business
The deal
The Syrians’ saviour
7. THE KURDS. March 2016 Cizre, south-eastern Turkey
Kurds and bears
Building Atatürk’s nation
The forbidden language
Erdoğan’s new era
8. PEACE, INTERRUPTED. October 2014 Kobanî, northern Syria
Erdoğan’s descent
The dead
9. THE COUP. 14 July 2016 One day before the coup
15 July 2016 The schizophrenic coup
The aftermath
The winners
One week on
The crackdown
10. ATATÜRK’S CHILDREN
March 2017 Hatay province
Law 5816 – insulting Atatürk
The Atatürk impersonator
The legacy
11. ERDOĞAN’S NEW TURKEY. April 2017 The referendum campaign
Erdoğan’s Istanbul
The suburbs
Erdoğan’s elites
16 April 2017 Referendum day
12. SPIN
The spin operation
The mouthpiece
May 2016 Ahmet Davutoğlu’s political assassination
The blog post
The son-in-law
Berat Albayrak and the Bosphorus Centre
June 2016 Britain’s referendum and Boris Johnson’s Turkophobia
Britain and Turkey: the bottom line
Celebrity endorsement and political courting
13. THE MISFITS
Turkey’s Jews
Pluralism à la Erdoğan
The LGBT community
New Turks: the Ahiska
14. THE WAR LEADERS. Atatürk’s end
Erdoğan: from civilian to commander in chief
Afrin: Erdoğan’s second Syrian war
Turning war into myth
15. ERDOĞAN’S ENDGAME. 24 June 2018 Election night
The campaign
Defeat
June 2018 Travelling the Eastern Express
Immortal Atatürk
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PICTURE SECTION
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
About the Author
About the Publisher
Отрывок из книги
For my dad, who planted so many seeds
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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There is a vague chronology to this story, but Turkey never makes sense on a single timeline. To understand the present you need to link it to the past, and to unravel Erdoğan and his followers you must also acquaint yourself with all the other bit-part players who share his stage. Remembering recent history has become an act of rebellion in Erdoğan’s Turkey; memories are being erased and events rewritten as he fashions the country to his liking. By 2023, when the next elections are scheduled, the memories of the old parliamentary system will have faded and no one much under forty will have ever voted in an election in which he or his party did not, somehow, claim victory.
So this book is my attempt to document what I have seen, before it is erased from Turkey’s official story in the way that history’s winners always rub out the bits they do not like. It starts a year on from the coup attempt, in a country that has started to believe its own lies and the middle of a crowd high on the rush of its leader’s ascent.
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