erdogan became chairman the youth cell of the national salvation party in the istanbul region, where he was born at the same time, he met in the youth women's movement. can you tell me how your meeting with your spouse is, because it is always interesting to know how young people get to know each other, and then your whole life opens up before them. i worked in youth party organizations, then we met and got married. it turned out we had common friends with my future wife, who introduced us to each other. we made sure that our views on many issues coincide parents and relatives. we have such an expression that the bride's house is supposed to be capricious for only a few days and after that they reported a positive decision satisfied. when i put forward my candidacy for the first time for the mayor of the beyoglu district of istanbul, i then began to fight for the nomination of women to the first roles in political life. many of my comrades then objected to the active participation of women in political life. i convinced them that it is necessary to overcome these prejudices and we su

in the middle of 1970, erdogan became the chairman of the youth cell of the national salvation party in the biyuglu district of istanbul. youth women's movement. how about the words of your meeting with your spouse, because it is always interesting to know how young people get to know each other, and then the whole life opens up before them. you worked in the youth party organizations, then we met and got married. we had mutual friends with my future wife, who introduced us to each other. we made sure that our views on many issues coincide with relatives. uh, sauce, we have such an expression that the house of the bride is supposed to be capricious only a few days and after that they reported a positive decision to a happy life. yes, i am also very pleased. when i put forward my candidacy for the first time for the mayor of the beyoglu district of istanbul, i then began the struggle for the nomination of women in the first role of political life. many of my comrades then objected to the active participation of women in political life. i convinced them that it is necessary to overcome

they chant in turkish driven by this sense of injustice, erdogan joins the islamist national salvation partythe mid—19705. they chant in turkish many people would tell that turkey is 90% or 80% muslim. in our ids, it's written "muslim", but we have a secular constitution, so, there has always been, you know... ..a tension between those two. byjoining an islamist party, erdogan was pitching himself against the secular elite who'd run the country for decades. geography is destiny. turkey looks like a bridge, actually, between east and west — europe and asia. so, the identity of turkey has always been pushed between two forces of west and east. the military have always maintained the balance of power between the islamist groups looking east and the liberals facing west. in 1961, the army hung the prime ministerfor undermining the constitution and moving away from secularism. turkey's military leaders seem to be in complete control tonight - after their pre—dawn coup, carried out apparently - without bloodshed. in 1980, just as erdogan was starting in politics, the military forced the government