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Erdoan

The Making of an Autocrat

Author: M. Hakan Yavuz   Series: Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey

Erdoan
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Examines 'New Turkey' through the life of its domineering leader

M. Hakan Yavuz , President Erdogan Uncovering the person behind the persona, Yavuz draws on 250 first-hand interviews to untangle the web of literary, religious and biographical influences that shaped Erdogan's personality, ideology and world view.

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Examines 'New Turkey' through the life of its domineering leader

M. Hakan Yavuz , President Erdogan Uncovering the person behind the persona, Yavuz draws on 250 first-hand interviews to untangle the web of literary, religious and biographical influences that shaped Erdogan's personality, ideology and world view.

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President Erdoan's resilience as Turkey's leader makes for an extraordinary political study of longevity, charisma and strategic decision-making. Uncovering the person behind the persona, M. Hakan Yavuz draws on 250 first-hand interviews to untangle the web of literary, religious and biographical influences that shaped Erdogan's personality, ideology and world view. With chapters covering the Gezi park protests, the clash between the AKP and Glen movement, the Kurdish question and the country's projected image as a major international power, Yavuz explores how Erdoan has created a 'New Turkey' a hybrid political entity, neither East nor West, democratic nor dictatorial, Islamic nor secular.

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“At last, a meticulously researched and stylistically elegant analysis that neither sanctifies nor vilifies Turkey's longtime, controversial leader, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Yavuz, one of the leading contemporary scholars of Turkish and Islamic studies calls upon more than 10 years of scrupulous research including a variety of revealing interviews with key personalities to present the most definitive personality study of this important socially conservative and populist world figure. Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Erdo?an's personality and how it has evolved.”

After years of fieldwork and interviews, Yavuz has rejected the predominantly essentialist readings of Erdoğan's policies as reflecting his natural authoritarian personality or the fact that he always has been Islamist. In this work, Yavuz meticulously makes the case that Erdoğan's personality, leadership identity and political ideology shift continuously. This book is a must-read for anyone who desires to understand Turkey's greatest political crisis as we approach the centennial of the country's founding as a modern Republic.--İstar Gözaydın, the author of Diyanet
At last, a meticulously researched and stylistically elegant analysis that neither sanctifies nor vilifies Turkey's longtime, controversial leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Yavuz, one of the leading contemporary scholars of Turkish and Islamic studies calls upon more than 10 years of scrupulous research including a variety of revealing interviews with key personalities to present the most definitive personality study of this important socially conservative and populist world figure. Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Erdoğan's personality and how it has evolved.--Michael M. Gunter, Professor of Tennessee Technological University
For nearly two decades, President Recep T. Erdoğan has dominated political life in Turkey. Celebrated by some for standing up for the common person and Turkey's national interests, he is accused by others of establishing an authoritarian state and undermining Turkey's secular orientation. Yavuz's valuable study traces Erdoğan's political rise, documenting both events and actors that influenced his development as well as how Erdoğan's actions have fundamentally transformed Turkey. In so doing, Yavuz connects Erdoğan's story to the broader fault lines that shape Turkey today. Part biography, part astute political analysis, this book is highly recommended for understanding the contradictions and complexities of Turkey under Erdoğan.--Paul Kubicek, Professor of Oakland University, editor of Turkish Studies

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About the Author

M. Hakan Yavuz is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.

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An examination of 'New Turkey' through the life of the country's domineering leaderPresident Erdo?an's resiliency as Turkey's leader makes for an extraordinary political study of longevity, charisma and strategic decision-making. Uncovering the person behind the persona, M. Hakan Yavuz draws on 250 first-hand interviews to untangle the web of literary, religious and biographical influences that shaped Erdogan's personality, ideology and world view. In understanding the inner life, continuous self-reinvention and professional struggles of Erdo?an, Yavuz is able to provide an invaluable insight into the complex record of policies - in both domestic and international arenas - that have marked his governing tenure. With chapters covering the Gezi park protests, the clash between the AKP and G

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Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Published
31st May 2021
Pages
368
ISBN
9781474483254

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