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.

Stefan Godin
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Can Dündar
as Self - Journalist

Mehmet Metiner
as Self - Journalist

Doğan Akhanli
as Self - Writer

Christian Makarian
as Self - Journalist

Ahmet İnsel
as Self - Writer

Erdoğan Aydin
as Self - Historian

Georges Prévélakis
as Self - Geopolitologist

Hamit Bozarslan
as Self - Historian

Pınar Selek
as Self - Writer