Recep Tayyip Erdogan Vs Atat K
Turkish president recep tayyip erdogan attended muslim prayers at istanbul s hagia sophia on friday the first since the iconic place of worship in istanbul was converted back into a mosque.
Recep tayyip erdogan vs atat k. ɾeˈdʒep tajˈjip ˈæɾdoan. First built as a cathedral in the christian byzantine empire the unesco world heritage site in historic istanbul was repurposed as a mosque in 1453. Last week the world was stunned to watch turkish president recep tayyip erdoğan s move to convert the hagia sophia from a museum into a mosque reversing the 1934 decision by mustafa kemal atatürk the founding father of the secular republic of turkey. Erdogan s legacy will likely outlast that of ataturk.
Born 26 february 1954 is a turkish politician serving as the 12th and current president of turkey he previously served as prime minister of turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as mayor of istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He wants it badly in his own image reflexive divisive opposed to ataturk its sunni identity utterly visible. It can be argued that erdogan is skilfully working to merge two ideologies extreme turkish nationalism and turkish islamism. President recep tayyip erdogan reformist general a former army general ataturk left his mark on the military after repelling the allied invasion of the dardanelles and later resisting the greek.
Erdogan wants to rise on the back of the merger and be more successful and for much longer than ataturk. He founded the justice and development party akp. W ɑː n wahn. Turkish president recep tayyip erdogan is scheduled to join hundreds of worshipers friday july 24 2020 for the first muslim prayers at the hagia sophia in 86 years weeks after a controversial.
Recep tayyip erdoğan uk. For all the international outrage over the conversion of the museum into a mosque it is hard to imagine a turkish leader and certainly. Turkey has weathered five successful military coups since the founding of the republic in 1923 and what happened on friday with soldiers surging against president recep tayyip erdoğan and his. Erdogan also knows that he can only achieve his objective with the help of extreme right nationalists whose sympathies for ataturk are overwhelmed in many ways by their pan turkist mythology that goes deep into central asia.