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    Making Turkey great again: How Erdogan rode to reelection on a nationalist wave

    by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times Jun 02, 2023 5 minutes
    Turkish President and leader of the Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during his party's group meeting at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara on Feb. 10, 2021.

    ISTANBUL — Before Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan snatched victory in the hardest fight of his two decades in power, a ubiquitous campaign poster showed him in dark sunglasses and a black aviator jacket with military patches alongside images of drones, ships, tanks and a ghostly national flag.

    "He won't leave the homeland unprotected," the poster's slogan said. "Go with the right man."

    It's a martial persona that has come to occupy an ever-larger part of the political identity Erdogan has constructed over the last 20 years . To an already-potent cocktail of Islamist and neo-liberal elements, Erdogan — who will be sworn in for a historic third presidential term Saturday — has added a large measure of muscular nationalism, which he channeled into a masterful, nostalgia-filled campaign that won him reelection and set him up to realize the vision he calls "Turkey's Century."

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