Hugh Eakin, Turkey’s Towering Ambitions
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s powerful prime minister, has gone further than any of his predecessors in moving away from the stridently anti-religious state that Atatürk created in the 1920s. Now he wants to build a huge Ottoman-style mosque on the highest point of land in Istanbul.
A woodcut of the Süleymaniye mosque in Istanbul by Melchior Lorichs, 1570
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