From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Building a Nation

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.

Documentary History TV Movie

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))

Sultan Mehmed V Reşad

(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))

Afet İnan

(Self - Atatürk's Daughter (archive footage))

Merve Kavakçı

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Adnan Menderes

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Cemal Gürsel

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Kenan Evren

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Necmettin Erbakan

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Fethullah Gülen

(Self - Religious Leader (archive footage))

Vladimir Putin

(Self - Politician (archive footage))