From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation

Oct 22, 2019

1h 31m

★ 7.0

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.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Stefan Godin

Self - Journalist

Can Dündar

Self - Journalist

Mehmet Metiner

Self - Writer

Doğan Akhanli

Self - Journalist

Christian Makarian

Self - Writer

Ahmet İnsel

Self - Historian

Erdoğan Aydin

Self - Geopolitologist

Georges Prévélakis

Self - Historian

Hamit Bozarslan

Self - Writer

Pınar Selek

Self - Historian

Thierry Zarcone

Self - Essayist

Henri Bentégeat

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