Turkey has acquired a central power role in the global arena, favored especially by the changing international environment and the not always far-sighted choices of the current President of the Republic Tayyip Recep Erdoğan. Since the birth of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the country has tried to reconcile typically Western democratic values with the precepts of Sunni Islam, with results that haven't always lived up to expectations. Let's talk about it in this short documentary.

Sources used for this video (most of them in italian unfortunately):
- V. Gay, "La Turchia: Opportunità e Sfide di una Potenza Geopolitica", Luiss, 2016;
- C. Decaro Bonella, "Itineari costituzionali a confronto", 2013;
- A. Biagini, "Storia della Turchia contemporanea", 2005;
- A. Stein, "The Fallout of the Failed Coup", The American Interest, 2016;
- S. E. Cornell, "A Botched Coup and Turkey's Descent into Madness", Wilfred Martens Center for
European Studies, 2016;
- V. Talbot, "Erdogan in cerca di rivalutazione", ISPI, 2022.