Episode description

Megan Gibson, our Senior Editor, International, speaks to the Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran.

They discuss Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism – and the lessons the political situation holds for other democracies – as well as the country’s spiralling economic crisis and what chance a united opposition might have to defeat the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

If you have a You Ask Us question for the international team, email podcasts@newstatesman.co.uk. 

Further Reading:

With Turkey in crisis, Erdoğan leans into chaos

Erdoğan rising: the making of an autocrat

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