The Birth of a Leader – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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Individual courage is both a natural response and a challenge to elitist societies. We need people of integrity who are prepared to stand up for justice and fair play. Someone of this quality, fuelled by a desire for decent values, can become outraged by the moral weakness of their opponents. As modernization tends to marginalize and exclude traditional structures, there is a tendency to undervalue or even ignore some of their underlying core concepts. In this context a virtue like bravery can seem to have little place in the modern world, a tendency identified by Marx as a typical example of capitalist inauthenticity. However, in the eyes of the people, Tayyip Erdoğan’s roots in Kasımpaşa assure his authenticity. The register of births both confirms his birthright and proves that he is truly one of the people. Tayyip Erdoğan is only too aware of the significance of his origins, and it seems appropriate that he is one of them, as he courageously sets out on his mission in life.

The Birth of a Leader is the story of a man who has long been underestimated by the old establishment and who thoroughly changed Turkish politics with diligence, discipline, intelligence and a due portion of ambition, and, with his visionary ideas, turned Turkey into one of the 20 most important nations of the world. Erdoğan, who came from a very small background, understands better than anyone before, that the needs and requests of the public are the important tasks. Hüseyin Besli and Ömer Özbay, who both have accompanied Erdoğan since the beginning of his political career, have written an exciting, remarkable and very authentic story with this authorized biography. A very readable book with lots of details about a highly interesting charismatic politician and statesman of the 21st century.