Erdogan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey Audiobook (Free)

‘Essential reading for anybody thinking about Turkey and its own potential.’ Literary Review

‘Important reading full end.’ Peter Frankopan

‘It is crucial.’ THE CHANGING TIMES

Who is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how did he lead a democracy over the fringe of European countries into dictatorship? How offers chaos in the centre East blown back over Turkey’s edges? And why doesn’t the Western world just cut Erdogan and his routine off?

about Erdogan Increasing: The Fight for the Spirit of Turkey

Hannah Lucinda Smith has been living in Turkey as the days correspondent for nearly ten years, reporting on the ground in the onset of the Arab Springtime through terrorist attacks, mass protests, civil battle, unprecedented refugee influx as well as the explosive, bloody 2016 coup attempt that threatened to topple – and get rid of – Erdogan.

Erdogan Rising introduces Turkey as a vital country, one that edges and buffers Western Europe, the center East as well as the old Soviet Union, marshals the next largest army in NATO and hosts more refugees than any other nation. As chief executive, Erdogan may be the face of devotion and department, a leader who perfected macho divide-and-rule politics a decade . 5 before Donald Trump cottoned on, and provides used it to business lead his country into spiralling authoritarianism.

However Erdogan is zero regular dictator. His elections are gained just by slivers, and Turkey continues to be described by its two warring cults: those that worship Erdogan, the wilful Muslim nationalist having a tightening authoritarian grip, and the ones who stand behind Ataturk, the secularist, westward-looking innovator who founded the republic and continues to be its best loved icon – right now eighty years useless.

Erdogan commands a following thus devoted they compose music in his honour, adorn their homes along with his picture, and lay down their lives to hold him in power. Erdogan Rising asks how this century’s most successful populist won his position, and where Turkey is headed next.