183. What the Turkish Election Means for Rojava
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Today we speak to writer and researcher Alexander McKeever about the consequences the current Turkish elections might have for the people of Rojava in NE Syria.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to writer and |
| 0:16.4 | researcher Alexander McKiva he's going to be talking to us about the various |
| 0:20.9 | goings on in Rajava, the Kurdish-held area in northeast Syria, also |
| 0:26.3 | known as the Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria. |
| 0:31.4 | Specifically, we're going to be speaking about how the Turkish elections are |
| 0:35.8 | going to affect this region and various ongoing conflict-related issues in the |
| 0:41.7 | region that have been going relatively under the |
| 0:44.0 | radar for a while now. If you like what we're doing support us at patreon. |
| 0:49.6 | com slash popular Front. Let's talk about the Turkish elections. Right now it's looking quite clear |
| 1:07.4 | that Erdogan has won. Turkey has in the majority voted again for Erdogan who has been in power for 20 years, brought |
| 1:15.2 | unbelievable levels of violence and totalitarianism, destroyed the economy to Turkey, but somehow has been voted in again on the majority. |
| 1:26.0 | It's going to go to a runoff but it's just not looking like, you know, it's looking like he's going to win again. |
| 1:32.0 | I guess, I guess let's talk about how that will |
| 1:37.2 | influence the future of Rajava because as we both know he seems to have been itching for an invasion |
| 1:44.8 | there's some talk that Uncle Joe Biden said no but I don't think that's going |
| 1:50.9 | to sustain for very long now that it's looking like Erdogan is back in power or retain power rather |
| 1:56.3 | It's going to be even more emboldened |
| 1:58.8 | You've been keeping a close eye on redjava when I feel like everyone else has kind of not been recently |
| 2:05.6 | What do you think this means? What's the situation going to be going forward? There's a lot of factors that go into Turkey's Syria policy, the Erdogan's Syria policy. |
| 2:15.1 | A lot of it over the course of the war has been trying to strengthen his grip within the country. |
| 2:20.6 | I think there's a good book recently called Erdogan's war by Gunotol about this |
| 2:26.1 | about how Erdogan was so many of its decision-making's over the last 20 years have been about trying to disempower the |
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