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Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic, New Republic, and Newsweek Turkiye. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, BBC, and CNN-Turk.
This is a brave and balanced narrative of Turkey's mercurial President Erdogan. Soner Cagaptay explains how 'the new sultan' built a modern and prosperous Turkey, but how his 'autocratic, illiberal side' undermined these achievements and throttled democracy. Turkey is now at a crossroads, and Cagaptay provides a clear roadmap. Nobody tells Erdogan's story better or more honestly. -- David Ignatius, columnist * Washington Post * Cagaptay … argues for a liberal path to securing the country’s future in this well-researched treatise. * Publisher's Weekly * Soner Cagaptay’s The New Sultan sets out the events that enabled a deeply religious man from a poverty-stricken background to take power in a state governed by secular laws. After a tough upbringing on Istanbul’s streets, Erdogan dragged himself up the ranks of Turkey’s Islamist movement, becoming a force in a party few thought would ever rule...It is, Cagaptay correctly surmises, a recipe for disaster...[the book is] a clearly written indictment of how a country that once seemed destined for greatness fell from grace — and how a boy from the back streets rose to become a sultan. -- Louise Callaghan * The Sunday Times *
