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Sunday, August 18, 2019
ERDOĞAN’S ‘OTTOMANIA’ | Roos Feringa
Recep Erdoğan, the president of theTurkish Republic uses Ottoman revival architecture in, what I would say, a two-fold political strategy. Namely, he uses nostalgia to the ‘great’, ‘powerful’, ‘tolerant’Ottomans as a tool, internationally and domestically, for his plan to create a strong and important Turkey. ...
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