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...He’ll probably rebrand his job once again, allow himself indefinite number of terms — so be Turkey’s sultan forever....
...Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey, dismissed ideas about the “golden ages” of the Ottoman world, whose sultans had dictated policy based on “feelings and desires”, rather than doing what...
...The former bureaucrat, who has led the party of Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, since 2010, has undergone a transformation in recent years....
...Not just the secular Republican People’s party (CHP) of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the republic, which he had easily seen off....
...Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish republic, then turned it into a museum in 1934....
...“As someone who has seen the excitement at and around Eyup Sultan mosque, of course I am sad that this year won’t be the same,” said Mustafa Mesten, the district’s most senior religious official....
...Since the 1990s, Muslims have been able to pray in a small space called the sultan’s pavilion. But some in conservative and rightwing circles want to go further....
...The man is then shown arriving at Turkey’s famous Blue Mosque, in the historic Sultan Ahmet district, carrying a plastic bag. When he leaves, he is wearing the original blue shirt....
...That would risk losing the unbridled power that is not quite within his grip, yet already greater than any Turkish leader since the father of the republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, whom this contemporary Sultan...
...“This is a historic day in Turkey — almost as significant as [Turkey’s founder] Mustafa Kemal Ataturk setting up his own republic in 1923,” said Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan: Erdogan and the...
...The Sultan of Brunei marked his silver jubilee in a gilded chariot hauled by dozens of subjects....
...“All political parties, all NGOs, all commentators, all newspapers came against the coup, even as it was unfolding,” said Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan: Erdogan and the crisis of modern Turkey...
...“The concern is whether the money that the Chinese are pouring into Malaysia, whether that’s felt by the vast majority or the people who actually benefit from it are an elite,” said Mustafa Izzuddin, a political...
...Kemal Ataturk, the father of the republic whom this neo-sultan aims to eclipse....
...These slaves were also presented as gifts; the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin’s great-grandfather was a slave from Cameroon given to Peter the Great by the Ottoman Sultan in 1703....
...Then, all of a sudden, troops took it over in an attempted coup, ostensibly aimed at restoring the secular order of the republic built on Jacobin lines in the last century by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk — slowly...
...The Sultan would have become ruler of a quaint emirate. Resistance to the treaty gathered and won Soviet support....
...Some of his supporters enthusiastically invoke the example of the sultans in arguing that Turkey should shift to a presidential system....
..., eclipsing Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the republic, as the great leader of modern Turkey....
...Then there is the wilful would-be sultan stalked by hubris and paranoia, treating Turks as his patriarchal property — “my nation”, as he habitually calls them, which he avowed would always obliterate the...
...Construction has already begun at the site which, perhaps coincidentally, is the seat of the last Ottoman Sultan....
...“The so-called sultan has built this for himself in a country where 3m people are without work,” said Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the opposition Republican Peoples party, in a speech on Tuesday, citing...
...possible and the British swiftly changed the constitutional order: the khedive Abbas II, who happened to be in Istanbul at the time, was deposed and his uncle, Husayn Kamil, was proclaimed the country’s sultan...
...That is the centenary of the Turkish republic retrieved by Mustafa Kemal from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. The prime minister’s critics had already started depicting him as a would-be sultan....
...The artist also has institutional backing: last year, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art acquired “1553” (2011), which depicts a bloodied Hürrem Sultan, the wife of the 16th-century ruler Sultan Süleiman the...
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