You will recall that around the time Donald Trump won the presidency in the United States,

we started worrying about authoritarian leaders. Turkey's president, Regipthai of Erdogan,

was one of them. He'd followed a similar playbook to Trump's, appeal to a conservative

base largely religious that felt left out, juice the economy, and slowly chip away at

things like the free press and free speech. And as it did in the US, it worked. Erdogan

has been very popular among many of his countrymen and country women. But Turks voted in a presidential

election over the weekend, and for the first time in a long time, some cracks started to show.

Erdogan lost half the population in a democratic vote, and he's been forced into a runoff with

a challenger. Coming up on today, explained how a bad economy and a very bad earthquake

backed an authoritarian leader into a corner.

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