SVT visits Erdogan’s home quarter: “Today’s Erdogan has become a strong man”

The young Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew up in the working-class district of Kasimpasa in Istanbul. Here, support for the incumbent president is high, and the opposition is met with anger.

– Today’s Erdogan has become what we in political science call a strong man, says Professor Zeynep Gambetti.

See when SVT visited Kasimpasa and met both Erdogan supporters and critics.

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