Erdoğan and the Intellectuals

In an open letter of August 25, 2012, to the then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the world-renowned Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, who was 98 at the time, challenged his claim that the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) had fortified the economy with an iron web. Responding to Erdoğan's exaggerated assertion that his Islamist politics had not only saved the nation from the brink of economic collapse but also raised it to the top ranks of the fastest-growing economies in the world, Çığ reminded the Islamist leader that the phoenix-like emergence of an independent nation from

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