How Turkey’s Repressive Secularism Helped Rise Of Erdogan

Turkey elections may head for run-off as Erdogan fails to get 50% votes

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the secular Turkish republic, banned Sufi orders, put mosques under government control, mandated officials to wear European-style brimmed hats, and banned Arabic as part of sweeping measures to impose secularism on Turks