After decades in hiding, in prison or keeping low profile, players from a bloody period in the country's history are now seen as 'folk idols' by the Turkish right At first glance, the photograph of two smartly dressed older Turkish men, posing for the camera in an office filled with flags, could be of any important figures in the country - but it is rare for a picture to say so much about both the past and the future. On the left is Devlet Bahçeli, an ultranationalist political dinosaur who has...
After decades in hiding, in prison or keeping low profile, players from a bloody period in the country's history are now seen as 'folk idols' by the Turkish right At first glance, the photograph of two smartly dressed older Turkish men, posing for the camera in an office filled with flags, could be of any important figures in the country - but it is rare for a picture to say so much about both the past and the future. On the left is Devlet Bahçeli, an ultranationalist political dinosaur who has...
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