From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation

Overview

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.

Details

Cast

Stefan Godin

Self - Narrator (voice)

Can Dündar

Self - Journalist

Mehmet Metiner

Self - Journalist

Doğan Akhanli

Self - Writer

Christian Makarian

Self - Journalist

Ahmet İnsel

Self - Writer

Erdoğan Aydin

Self - Historian

Georges Prévélakis

Self - Geopolitologist

Hamit Bozarslan

Self - Historian

Pınar Selek

Self - Writer

Thierry Zarcone

Self - Historian

Henri Bentégeat

Self - Essayist

Necdet Saraç

Self - Alevi Speaker

Oya Ersoy

Self - Politician

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Self - Politician (archive footage)

V. Mehmed

Self (archive footage)

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany

Self (archive footage)

Latife Uşşakî

Self - Atatürk's Wife (archive footage)

Keriman Halis Ece

Self - Miss Universe 1932 (archive footage)