Behind the News: Güney Isikara & Keenan Korth

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode: Güney Isikara on why Turkish president Recep Erdogan is getting even more authoritarian. Then, Keenan Korth on how the left took over the Nevada Democratic party.

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0:00.0	The The Hello and welcome to Behind the News, my name is Doug Henwood. The usual
0:37.0	two-parter today. We'll hear from the political economist Gune Ishikara on
0:40.9	the deepening authoritarianism in Turkey and then the political strategy on the
0:45.0	Ishkara on the deepening authoritarianism in Turkey.
0:44.0	And then the political strategist Keenan Korth
0:46.0	will explain how a DSA-linked progressive slate
0:48.0	took over the leadership of the Nevada State Democratic Party.
0:52.0	First, Turkey. A couple of weeks ago, Turkish
0:55.1	President Rissip Iderwan, who's been becoming more and more authoritarian during
0:58.8	his 18 years in power, moved to ban the leftist People's Democratic Party known by its Turkish initials as the HDP.
1:06.0	It is a coalition of left-wing forces that is demonized as pro-Kurdish, the kiss of death in establishment Turkish circles. Erdogan's party the one party rule in 2015, thanks in no small part, to the HDP. The AKP now rules an alliance
1:26.5	with among other right-wing forces a fascist party known as the MHP.
1:31.1	What's going on in Erdogan's Turkey? An important node in what's come to be known as the National
1:35.6	International, made up of countries like Bolsonaro's Brazil, Modi's India,
1:40.2	Orbán's Hungary, and until January 20th, Trump's US.
1:44.0	Here to explain as Guni Shikata, and my apologies for
1:47.8	mangling the Turkish, a professor in the liberal studies program at
1:51.2	NYU. He's the co-author of a recent article in
1:54.5	Jacobin on the topic. Here's Gune Ishikata. So let's just start with what
1:59.1	Erdogan did. I'm moving to ban the Pearl Kurdish HDP.
2:03.0	What is the HDP and what is Ederwontana do to it and why?
2:07.0	So the HDP is actually an alliance.
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