Excerpts chosen and presented by Alexandre Devecchio
For the historian and theologian Jean-François Colosimo, it is indeed a project of reconquest that Erdogan is leading today: in the Middle East, but also in the Mediterranean, in the Caucasus and perhaps tomorrow in Asia and the Balkans. , going so far as to threaten world peace.
The United States and Europe have denied the danger for too long, argues the thinker: out of comfort and cowardice but also, according to him, out of ideological blindness and historical ignorance.
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To understand how far Turkey will go, you have to understand where it came from, Colosimo tells us, exploring the century of tormented existence of the Turkish Republic, haunted by the memory of the Ottoman Empire.
And the historian to show, beyond the breaks with Mustafa Kemal, the elements of permanence and continuity leading to the current warlike spiral.
Far from being reduced to the antithesis of the secularist Atatürk, underlines Colosimo, the Islamist Erdogan also presents himself, to many
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