His father said, no. You have to go and study at this Religious School i and you have to be a good boy. So, a completely authoritarian. Figure who shaped erdogans life away from what erdogan had wanted to become. Erdogans family were religious but modern turkey had largely been ruled by the Secular Elite. So, the Young Erdogan was made to feel like a Second Class Citizen for his faith. He felt stigmatised i that he was studying at a Religious School. So, i think at every stage in his upbringing, as a teenager and in his earlyl years, in his 20s, erdogan felt profoundly othered in a society that was formally secularist,. And i think he has a grudge against the system to this day. When he was growing up, i he was exposed to wealth and privilege, and he realised that people who had economic power. Were also people who promoted the idea of a secular society. They chant in turkish driven by this sense of injustice, erdogan joins the Islamist National Salvation Party in the mid 19705. They c
Captioning sponsored by annenberg cpb narrator the region of Northern Africa and southwest asia is largely islamic. But jerusalem, like the rest of israel and palestine, is bitterly divided between muslims and jews. At the beginning of the 21st century, arabs in the israelioccupied territories on the west bank and the gaza strip began an uprising they called the second intifada. It was marked by a seemingly endless cycle of arab attacks and suicide bombings followed by israeli reprisals. In order to understand the prospects for peace, we explore the historical geography of israel and palestine with special emphasis on the sacred space of jerusalem. For half a century, israelis and palestinians have battled over jerusalem and a larger homeland. Helping to mediate competing claims was dennis b. Ross, special envoy for the first president bush and then president clinton. As his term ended, the Peace Process crumbled. The intifada that began has had lots of casualties. Unfortunately, one o
Is bitterly divi between muslims anjews. At the beginning of the 21st century, arabs in the israelioccupied territories on the west bank and the gaza strip began an uprising they called the second intifada. It was marked by a seemingly endless cycle of arab attacks and suicide bombings followed by israeli repriss. In order to understand the prospects for peace, we explore the historical geography of israel and palestine with special emphasis on the sacred space of jerusalem. For half a century, israelis and palestinians have battled over jerusalem and a larger homeland. Helping to mediate competing claims was dennis b. Ross, special envoy for the first president bush and then president clinton. As his term ended, the Peace Process crumbled. The intifada that began has had lots of casualties. Unfortunately, one of the worst casualties in addition to the true human suffering has been a loss of complete faith and belief in peacemaking. What is so disheartening for someone like me, after h
Historical survey of the Turkish left and workers' movement, focusing particularly on the 1960s-70s and the slide into guerrilla warfare, looking both at the strengths and fatal weaknesses of the two interconnected movements.