M. Hakan Yavuz is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Utah and author of Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Memory and Neo-Ottomanism.
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M. Hakan Yavuz is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Utah and author of Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Memory and Neo-Ottomanism.
In a bid to consolidate power, ErdoÄŸan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.
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