From Ataturk to Erdogan, from Barracks to Mosque: A Turkish History

Audio 48:30

“The saber and the turban, how far will Turkey go”, by Jean-François Colosimo.

© Editions du Cerf

By: Geneviève Delrue

50 mins

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World Religions - Sunday, December 13, 2020 - 10:10 a.m. - 11 a.m. (Paris time)

From Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, to President Erdogan, from the secular Republic to the Islamization of the nation, from the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire to the all-out military expeditions launched by the Turkish President: for

Jean-François Colosimo

, which signs

"

The sword and the turban, how far will Turkey go

" (Cerf)

, there are not two Turkey, but only one haunted by its past and which, between East and West, does not fails to find its place.

Armenia / Nagorno-Karabakh: L'Oeuvre d'Orient, 

in conjunction with Caritas Armenia and the Armenian Apostolic Church, launches a support fund for displaced Armenians: the testimony of

Eglantine Gabaix-Hialé

on her return from Armenia.

The bill "consolidating the principles of the Republic"

, which mainly intends to fight against Islamist separatism, was presented this week in the Council of Ministers:

Najwa El Haïté,

lawyer, doctor of public law, deputy mayor of Évry-Courcouronnes and member of the LaRem working group on the fight against separatism led by former senator Bariza Khiari.

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