> you will see that every GDP in the region rose dramatically over the period of a few years in the early 2000s. This increase in GDP in the region was not caused by turkey's investment in infrastructure, it was caused by foreign investors
Fair enough. I was not paying attention to macroeconomics at that time. Still, Erdogan used the growing economy to win the secular base, while using religion and nationalism to win the non-secular base.
And now his face is a mural on every other building you see. SMH.
> Erdogan used the growing economy to win the secular base
There was a brief moment back in 2007-2008 where they used the brilliant neo-liberal ideas to impose the ottoman narrative of "ataturk did bad" and it worked! Rich liberals swallowed up the new narrative like flies on feces. This was the time of the kurdish initiative where there was a cease-fire and liberal artists and leaders who supported the government went over to the kurdish side asking them about their motives while armed resistance grew by at least 5-fold. This quickly ended in the government bombing resistance forces and the neo-liberal agenda died right there and then. Very sad times.
Fair enough. I was not paying attention to macroeconomics at that time. Still, Erdogan used the growing economy to win the secular base, while using religion and nationalism to win the non-secular base.
And now his face is a mural on every other building you see. SMH.
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