Jan 20

Adnan Khan on the human toll of Turkey's importing of Europe's waste

Journalist Adnan Khan on the spectacular growth of Turkey's plastic waste imports and the role of migrant labour in the sector. His work paints a grim portrait of how the EU-Turkey migration deal and China's banning of plastic waste imports have helped the industry flourish in Tu ... Show More

37m 41s

Jan 6

Burcu Karahan on sexual freedom and women in late Ottoman fiction

Burcu Karahan on her translation of “One Thousand and One Kisses: The Most Joyous and Flirtatious Stories” (Translation Attached). The book brings together 65 stories blending humour and eroticism, published anonymously in 1923-24. The stories are a fascinating time capsule of a ... Show More

32m 19s

Dec 22

Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue

Mehmet Gurses on his article “Turkey's Kurdish Conflict Transformed”, published in the Current History journal. The conversation places the PKK's emergence and transformations in a historical context over the past five decades, also weighing up shifts that may be triggered by its ... Show More

35m 46s

Apr 2024

A Turkey of an Election for Erdogan: AKP losses, CHP wins, and İmamoğlu's rising star

The recent local elections in Turkey did not go to plan for President Erdogan. The voters sent a clear message to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party and the strongman president, when they voted in unprecedented numbers for the opposition Republican People's Part ... Show More

31m 37s

May 2023

Turkish Elections: The End of Erdogan?

Turkey’s longtime leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing what many describe as his toughest election yet. On Sunday, May 14th polls will open for presidential and parliamentary elections, and amid a dire economic crisis in the country, his prospects are in doubt. His leading rival ... Show More

45m 32s

Mar 2023

Turkish commentator Cengiz Candar says Turkey's opposition will win elections overwhelmingly with Kurdish backing

<p>Turkey will hold parliamentary and presidential elections on May 14. The outcome will determine whether Turkey can return to a more democratic path or plunge into full blown autocracy, or worse dictatorship, some say. For the first time the opposition appears to have ... Show More

25m 52s

May 2023

Pro-Kurdish Green Left Party candidate Ceylan Akca says Turkish security forces are terrorizing Kurdish voters but will fail

<p>Turkey's Kurds are poised to swing the outcome of the May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing the biggest challenge in his 20 years in uninterrupted power. Kurdish parliamentary candidate Ceylan Akca says that des ... Show More

24m 54s

Apr 2023

Is Turkey about to see the end of the Erdoğan era?

<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in power for 20 years - and he has every intention of carrying on. But the Turkish leader faces a serious challenge in May’s general election. A change at the top in Turkey could also have profound implications for the wider region. But ... Show More

27m 1s

May 2023

The end of Erdoğan? — Turkey's EU accession ambitions — Europe Day

This week, the focus is on Turkey and what's at stake in elections happening May 14. We also hear from British writer and scholar Hugh Pope, who has written extensively on modern Turkey and tackles the long-standing issue of EU accession. Host Suzanne Lynch is joined by POLITICO' ... Show More

32m 56s

Feb 2024

Commotion and a no confidence motion: What damage has the Commons Gaza row done?

The third largest party in the House of Commons, the SNP, says it doesn't have confidence in its Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle. The Speaker himself says he took decisions about how MPs debated and voted on calls for a ceasefire in Gaza because he wanted as broad a discussion as possible ... Show More

26m 14s

Jan 2024

Is democracy dying?

Why are younger voters around the world turning their back on democracy in favour of strongman leaders who are prepared to defy parliaments?In a year when more than two billion people in 50 countries will go to the polls – the biggest global election year in history – Amol and Ni ... Show More

47m 54s

Feb 2023

Elly Schlein: Italiens linke Hoffnung

Jung, progressiv und vor allem politisch links – das ist Elly Schlein – die neue, und erste, Chefin der italienischen Sozialdemokratie. Gestern Sonntag setze sich Schlein überraschenderweise bei der öffentlichen Wahl um den Vorsitz der Partito Democratico durch. Von ihren Anhänge ... Show More

23m 42s

Seda Demiralp on Turkey’s surprise local...