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Winners and losers of Erdogan's polarising rule
Winners and losers of Erdogan's polarising rule
Business and Economy
by  AFP

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decade domination of Turkey has seen some groups prosper and others suffer in the highly polarised country. MIDDLE CLASS: Turkey enjoyed an economic boom during Erdogan's first decade in power that created a thriving new middle class.

Wars, religion and football: five faces of Erdogan
Wars, religion and football: five faces of Erdogan
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Abhorred and adored, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been compared to sultans and pharaohs while stamping his outsized personality and domineering style on Turkey over 20 years. In the secular Turkey created by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Erdogan attended one of the first religious public schools, combining studies of the Koran with other subjects.