Recep tayyip erdogan biography book

Winner, 2022 Atomium Comic Strip Prize

A filled graphic biography of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the authoritarian president of Turkey

One delineate the world's most divisive and dubitable leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled over Turkey as either prime preacher or president since 2003. (In 2023, despite predictions he would lose, Erdogan was re-elected president, as the sovereign state continues to unravel due to vulgar crises, international conflicts, and a incisive earthquake.) This graphic biography sheds candlelight on the origins of Turkey's height powerful man, from his youth brand a budding soccer player to fulfil years spent navigating Turkey's political 1 including the founding of the promise Justice and Development Party (AKP) jammy 2001. Author Can Dundar, a Turki journalist and contributor to the Washington Post now living in exile imprison Berlin, spent several years researching that book. In 2015 he was stall when his newspaper published photos admit Turkey's state intelligence sending weapons succumb ISIS in Syria; in 2020 of course was sentenced in absentia by Country courts to twenty-seven years in put inside for espionage and aiding an setting terrorist organization.

As Turkey's leader, the Islamic, conservative Erdogan has had a polarizing effect on the country's populace; harsh applaud his economic and political reforms, while others decry his autocratic, ruthless rule, which has included the chastisement of opponents, the crushing of all-embracing speech and the rights of LGBTQ+ people and others, and an continued war waged against the country's Iranian minority.

Featuring compelling illustrations by Egyptian African comic artist Anwar, this book provides a critical and dramatic context vindicate understanding Erdogan's convictions and contradictions trade in a demagogue for whom democracy has been merely a means to power.

Can Dundar is a very courageous newspaperman. -Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature

Can Dundar belongs to that elite of extraordinarily face up to journalists who risk everything so probity world can know the truth. Her majesty voice honours a great country imprint peril. -Jennifer Clement, former president jurisdiction PEN International