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1/2: #Turkey: Close Presidential contest between Erdogan and the dissent about COLA, earthquake, jihadism. Sinan Ciddi, FDD

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

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1/2: #Turkey: Close Presidential contest between Erdogan and the dissent about COLA, earthquake, jihadism. Sinan Ciddi, FDD

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https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/04/24/eyeing-congress-biden-administration-approves-possible-f-16-equipment-sale-to-turkey/



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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelors.

0:41.3

Turkey, power of Asia Minor, the entrance to the Black Sea where the war drags on.

0:48.5

The Wall Street Journal in these last hours has summarized the challenges for the people

0:53.2

of Turkey and the region. The catastrophic earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria

0:57.8

in February deepen the economic challenges facing the Turkish state by causing $103 billion

1:05.0

in damages, equivalent to about 9% of the projected size of the country's economy.

1:10.3

The quakes killed more than 56,000 people across both countries leveled into our Turkish

1:15.5

cities and damaged factories. In addition, Turkey now suffers as the Wall Street Journal.

1:21.3

From one of the highest rates of inflation in the world, at more than 51% according to

1:26.1

government's official figures, independent economists estimate inflation at 112%.

1:33.6

I welcome Sinan Chidi of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the Marine Corps

1:38.8

University to guide me through what appears to be an impossible task to solve all this

1:45.8

in time for the election choice within these next weeks. Turkey goes to the polls to choose

1:52.4

to stay with Mr. Erdogan or for his opponents. Sinan, a very good evening to you. The earthquake

1:59.1

has not solved. The economy has not solved. And yet what we have right now is a political

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