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Hello, I'm Natasha Furrows and this is Spectator Out Loud. Each week we ask a few of the writers

from the magazine to read their pieces.

Coming up, we have Eché Tamil Kurun on the Turkish elections, Lara Prendergast, or Millennial Millies,

a new voter demographic, and Aidan Hartley on surviving a drought. First up, Ech-A. Tamokuren.

Kulichdaroly is a pronunciation nightmare for the non-Turkish.

Yet after this Sunday's presidential elections,

international news presenters who have struggled for 20 years with President Erdogan's

soft G might have to work harder to articulate the name of the social democrat leader of opposition.

You may call him Mr. Kemal, that's his first name, until he wins, I've been saying to journalist friends.

It's the kind of simplification that people from complex non-Western countries are self-trained to give,

so our maddening realities can be better understood. To feel Turkey, imagine the acute polarization

during the Brexit referendum continuing for 20 years. Add to that a far more ruthless Trump

with political genius and Islam's aspirations.

This is what we do. This is what we say. And since March, when the election campaign for the

presidency and parliament began, my line has been quite simple. Either Mr. Kemal wins against Erdogan or we lose the country for good.

This is the final countdown. If Turkey's 20-year one-man rule does not end on Sunday,

even the apologists for Erdogan would agree that no political leader can challenge him afterwards.

The country will become unlivable,

not only for the disobedient like myself, I left in 2016 after my criticism of president

caused me my job as a journalist, but for anybody who is not submissive enough.

Already famous for his illegal purges of political rivals and critics, Erdogan has been

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