Adnan Menderes

On the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation, TRT World revisits the island's turbulent history and asks: Is there still hope for reconciliation?

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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.

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A documentary of Turkish political history about multi-party period, Democrat Party government and the coup d’État of May 27th.

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