MESOP NEWS SAMPLER : ERDOGAN’S MOSQUES & THE ECONOMY

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)

In Turkey, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the largest opposition party, began a march to Istanbul from Ankara to protest the widening crackdown on dissent.
Thousands of people in both cities protested the 25-year jail sentence handed to a prominent opposition lawmaker on espionage charges. Above, a protest in Ankara.
Separately, a Turkish court sentenced a United Nations war crimes judge to jail on terrorism charges.
Our magazine looks at how President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used the construction of mosques to further his agenda and provide economic stimulus.