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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Every week we take a look at some of the most

important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them. I'm William Moore,

the Spectator's Features Editor. This week, could President Erdogan broker a peace deal between Putin

and the West? Plus, a look at Tina, the drug devastating the gay community.

And finally, are the Oscars losing their relevance?

First up, for this week's cover story,

Owen Matthews has written about how Turkey's President Erdogan

became a key power broker between Vladimir Putin and the Western Alliance.

Owen joins me now,

along with Ed J. Timul-Kurran, a political thinker and author of How to Lose a Country.

Owen, in your article, you say that Erdogan could be instrumental in resolving the Ukraine crisis.

Why is he caught between the two sides? Well, he's been in the halfway between East and West for pretty much his whole career. I mean, that's been

Edwin's major policy move right from the beginning of his career was actually to

start to make friends with all of his neighbors,

and those include Russia.

So, in fact, one of the major sources of friction between Erdogan and the West has not just been

Erdogan's sort of deep suspicion of American hegemony, which is something that he shares with Putin,

by the way, and his difficult relationship with Europe, but also his

friendship with Putin has been ongoing. It's been, it was actually very strong, certainly in the

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