Turkey stuffed? A democracy’s last stand

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismantled the country’s institutions. As an <a href="https://www.economist.com/special-report/2023/01/16/turkey-faces-a-crucial-election-this-summer?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discove ...

As President Recep Tayyip Erdogan keeps pushing his upside-down economic ideas, the currency plummets and an <a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/erdogans-zany-monetary-experiment-is-impoverishing-turkey/21806459?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.n ...

After 21 years of leading Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a global political giant. But a crumbling Turkish economy and the opposition candidate pose the biggest threat to his power in years. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laur ...  عرض المزيد

Last summer President Kais Saied nobbled the legislature; now he has abolished the judiciary. We ask where the country <a href="https://espresso.economist.com/8218219cb109041baf61ea3cf8b7dd7e?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=dis ...  عرض المزيد