World Review from the New Statesman

Turkey’s escalating crisis, with Ece Temelkuran

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 <a href="mailto:podcasts@newstatesman.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">podcasts@newstatesman.co.uk</a>.  Further Reading: With <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2021/10/with-turkey-in-crisis-erdogan-leans-into-chaos" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turkey in crisis,</a> Erdoğan leans into chaos<a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2019/10/erdogan-rising-the-making-of-an-autocrat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Erdoğan rising</a>: the making of an autocrat Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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