Around the World Update: Turkey, Pakistan, and Palestine

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On Sunday, Turkey’s presidential election could unseat Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim has a wide-ranging conversation with guests, covering Turkey's election, the arrest of the former prime minister of Pakistan, and ongoing struggles in Palestine. Selim Koru, an analyst at the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey talks about the political climate in the country ahead of the election. Pakistani journalist Waqas Ahmed breaks down the arrest of Imran Khan, the cricket star turned politician. The Intercept’s Alice Speri discusses the one-year anniversary of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing and recent developments in the West Bank.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Ryan Grimm.
0:07.5	This Sunday, voters in Turkey will go to the polls with the opposition optimistic that
0:11.8	they have a real chance of ousting Thai up Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics
0:16.0	for two decades.
0:17.5	We talked with Saleem Kauru about whether the polls that show Erdogan losing will hold.
0:21.7	Now in Pakistan on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that this week's detention of former
0:26.3	prime minister Imran Khan was illegal, ordering his immediate release.
0:30.8	We interviewed Pakistani journalist Wakha Sokmed on Wednesday ahead of that ruling about
0:34.7	his arrest, but as you'll hear in our conversation, Ahmed, who was actually scheduled to interview
0:39.2	Khan just before he was arrested, already knew that the detention was illegal.
0:43.6	And finally, Israel has launched airstrikes in Gaza again, coinciding with the one-year
0:48.1	anniversary of the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shariin Abu Aqli.
0:52.2	Intercept reporter Alice Spari recently visited the region, and she joined us to talk about
0:56.2	what she saw there.
0:57.7	Joining me first to discuss the election set to take place this Sunday in Turkey is Saleem
1:01.5	Kauru.
1:02.5	He's an analyst at the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey.
1:06.8	Welcome to deconstructed Saleem.
1:07.8	Thanks for having me.
1:09.2	Can you walk us through why it was that the earthquake in Turkey has been so damaging
1:16.1	politically to Erdogan?
1:18.6	I could see a world in which people say, you know what?
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