BBCNEWS Turkey July 5, 2024
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 erdogan's life away from what erdogan had wanted to become. - erdogan's 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 othe...