Le 6 février, un tremblement de terre ébranlait le sud-est de la Turquie et le nord-ouest de la Syrie. Deux semaines plus tard, il y a quelques jours, de nouvelles secousses et répliques sismiques se faisaient à nouveau sentir. Le bilan humain ne cesse de progresser. Des milliers de personnes restent coincées sous les décombres avec désormais peu de chances ... Show More
Oct 4
Le sable: une ressource banale devenue stratégique
Il joue un rôle déterminant pour le développement des technologies de pointe. Il joue un rôle déterminant dans notre quotidien. Il est partout. Il constitue les plages, les déserts, les fonds marins, mais surtout… il est au cœur de notre économie moderne. Le sable est la ressourc ... Show More
48m 28s
May 2023
Turkey’s President Fights for Political Survival
For two decades, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has loomed large over Turkish politics. But skyrocketing inflation and a devastating earthquake have eroded his power and, in a presidential election over the weekend, he was forced into a runoff.Ben Hubbard, The Times’s Istanbul bu ... Show More
24m 50s
May 2023
Turkey’s Critical Elections
On this week's episode Alistair Taylor, MEI's editor-in-chief, is joined by Gönül Tol, the founding director of MEI's Turkey Program and the author of "Erdogan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria," to discuss Turkey's critical upcoming elections. After two decades ... Show More
32m 39s
Feb 2021
Erdogan's Middle East Policy
This week on Babel, Jon Alterman talks with Ambassador James Jeffrey, who recently finished serving as the Secretary of State's special representative for Syria engagement and as the special envoy to defeat ISIS. Ambassador Jeffrey talked about Turkey's Middle East policy, how to ... Show More
32m 58s