Turkey’s new-found love for all things Ottoman
Middle East EyeDilly Hussain, Ertugrul, Islam, Kemalism, Muslims, Ottomans, TurkeyAfter the Ottoman Caliphate was abolished on 3 March 1924 and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk declared Turkey a secular republic, the country looked towards western Europe as a political model to emulate. During its formative years, the new Turkish republic saw a period of forced assimilation to secularism, and the censorship of Turkey’s innate Islamic identity […]
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