Secular from the faithful
How Recep Erdogan built his pyramid President Erdogan at a climate conference, France, Le Bourget, November 30, 2015 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan loves to recall how in 1998, having only the position of mayor of Istanbul behind him as a political trump card, he dared to publicly quote the lines of the Turkish poet Zia Gokalpa: “Mosques, dome are our helmets, minarets - our bayonets, and the faithful are our soldiers.” After that, he was in prison on charges of inciting religious