Svante Cornell in The National on Turkish politics
September 30, 2018: Svante Cornell was interviewed in The National on Turkish politics and religion.
“The world view and the mentality and the ideology of this particular Naqshbandi group has defined Turkish Islamism […] if you look at President Erdogan, who is himself a member of an arm of the Naqshbandi, he has a positive view of this issue,[…]He has been raised in this structure and comes from the same tradition so he has a positive view.”