A new study by the Center for American Progress (CAP) concludes that Turkey is undergoing a new nationalist wave led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the VOA News website reports today (February 17, 2018).
The report and the findings of polls and focus groups conducted in Turkey late last year show that Erdogan is trying to craft a new nationalism.
"He is doing this with his political rhetoric, but he is also drawing on a genuine upswelling of nationalism from the Turkish populists," Max Hoffman, one of the report's authors, told VOA News.
Hoffman added that this new nationalism includes "real hostility towards the West, particularly the U.S., but also Europe. Correlated to that, there is widespread hostility towards Syrian refugees and to some extent, other immigrants to Turkey."
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