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…king raki, a popular anise-flavored alcoholic drink, to demonstrate that secularism had come to the nascent Turkish state. Erdogan has crafted a different image — in the grandiose presidential palace he rece…
…at secularism had come to the nascent Turkish state. Erdogan has crafted a different image — in the grandiose presidential palace he recently constructed and in the remaking of Istanbul as an imperial city thr…
…ive language, reaching its apotheosis in 2006 with the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature to Orhan Pamuk for his novels written in modern Turkish.