Recep Tayyip Erdogan has prepared the celebration of his third term even before the second round on Sunday. It will be an opportunity to celebrate "his" revenge and especially that of the Turks of his pedigree.
"Erdogan's whole narrative is based on the idea that the state is going to be refounded, but this time as a state that reappropriates the values of the Ottoman Empire," says political scientist Zeynep Gambetti. "If Erdogan were to write a book, he could call it 'History of a Nation Rejected, History of a Revived Nation,'" says American historian Howard Eissenstat.