INTERVIEW – Journalist in Turkey, where she has lived since 2010, Anne Andlauer is writing a book on Erdogan’s regime. In power since 2003, the Turkish president finds himself in a complicated position facing a flagging economy, but also a new generation of voters who could undermine his ambitions.
LE FIGARO. – On March 9, 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Prime Minister of Turkey. Since then, he has not left power, which he exercises today as President of the Republic. The “Erdogan generation”, which only knew him, is not politically won over to the current president, you write in your book, Erdogan’s Turkey (Editions du Rocher. Why?
Anne ANDLAUER. – The discourse of Recep Tayyip Erdogan (RTE) over the past five or six years has been essentially a security discourse which permanently maintains the idea of the threats hanging over Turkey. He takes care not to name anyone but makes it clear to the Turks that their country lives under the threat of economic and political attacks, including from allies.
It is also a rather polarizing discourse, not to say very polarizing, which constantly divides Turkish society between good patriots, good Turks, good Muslims, and those who would be the allies of these foreign forces, those…
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