A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy) economics In those four centuries of

In those four centuries of warfare between two major maritime powers

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This engaging study pits the the Byzantine dromon against the Arabic shalandi in the prolonged struggle for mastery in the Mediterranean in the four centuries after 630 AD

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A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy) economics In those four centuries ofRecep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled Turkey for nearly two decades. Here, Soner Cagaptay, a leading authority on the country, offers insights on the next phase of Erdogan's rule. His dwindling support base at home, coupled with rising opposition, the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic, and Turkey's weak economy, would appear to threaten his grip on power. How will he react? In this astute analysis, Cagaptay casts Erdogan as an inventor of nativist populist