Ataturk Si Erdogan
Ataturk is a myth to millions and what erdogan aspires to do is to enforce a myth about himself thereby eroding the other.
Ataturk si erdogan. Hagia sophia or ayasofya a unesco world heritage site that was a byzantine cathedral before being converted into a mosque which is currently a museum is seen in istanbul turkey june 28 2020. Erdoğan and ataturk are often seen as opposing figures. Secularism survives in turkish society but it is a fading force. One of the leaders was the mayor of istanbul recep tayyip erdoğan who was later imprisoned in 1999 for a speech he gave in siirt a town in the religiously conservative and restive southeastern.
Every year november 10 marks one of turkey s best kept rituals. At the very least he hopes to make the ataturk myth secondary in the collective mindset. For all the international outrage over the conversion of the museum into a mosque it is hard to imagine a turkish leader and certainly not a democratically elected one turning the mosque back to a museum. The turkish state is now an expression of erdogan s ideal more than it is ataturk s.
Erdogan s legacy will likely outlast that of ataturk.