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Feb 2023
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Ece Temelkuran: Is Erdogan's control of ...

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Ece Temelkuran, a prominent exiled Turkish writer and critic of President Erdogan. Erdogan has dominated Turkey for two decades but after the terrible earthquakes, with economic and political problems mounting and an election imminent, could his opponents finally bring him down?

(Photo: Ece Temelkuran in the Hardtalk studio)

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