Autocrat v bureaucrat: Turkey’s crucial vote
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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It is probably this year’s most important election—and for the first time in a long time, the country’s strongman leader has a plausible adversary. Our correspondent heads along to the Hollywood writers’ strike, finding an age-old conflict centred on the technologies that shape the film-and-television industry. And the books to read to become a better home bartender.
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| 1:01.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Jason Palmer. And I'm Oire Ugunbei. |
| 1:07.7 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.6 | If you are a film or television writer in America, welcome. Now you've got some time. Check out our back |
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| 1:53.0 | First up, though. |
| 2:08.6 | On Sunday, Turkey will go to the polls in what's probably the most important election in the world this year. The country is at a geographic crossroads between Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, |
| 2:13.6 | and at a kind of ideological one, a NATO member that's cozy with China and Russia. |
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