From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation (2019)
• October 22nd, 2019 • 1h 31min
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Overview
Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.
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