This Is What Democracy Looks Like? How Erdogan Won Again In Turkey
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🗓️ 1 June 2023
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Yet, he still managed to come out ahead in this week's runoff election, extending his two-decade tenure leading Turkey by another five years.
His victory was a case study in how to use populism, intimidation and division to harness a democracy and stay in power.
NPR's Fatma Tanis breaks down his victory and what it means for democracy in Turkey and more broadly.
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| 0:00.0 | For a moment this year, it looked like Rajip Taya Pairdawan's firm grip on power in |
| 0:11.6 | Turkey might finally be loosening. |
| 0:13.9 | We're talking breaking news out of Turkey where a major earthquake has struck the southern |
| 0:18.1 | part of the country. |
| 0:19.3 | The death toll from the February earthquakes quickly rose into the thousands, then tens |
| 0:24.2 | of thousands. |
| 0:25.6 | Millions of people were left homeless. |
| 0:28.3 | People died in the rubble waiting for rescue crews. |
| 0:31.4 | And even though they faced arrest for doing so, Turks began to criticize their government's |
| 0:37.2 | response. |
| 0:38.2 | We don't know what to do. |
| 0:41.5 | Unfortunately, we are not getting help. |
| 0:44.0 | The Red Pressant Relief used to give out food, but now that stopped too. |
| 0:48.6 | That's 36-year-old Shukran speaking weeks after the earthquake at that point still living |
| 0:53.8 | in a tent. |
| 0:54.8 | Someone give them the help. |
| 0:55.8 | May God have mercy on all our dead everywhere. |
| 1:00.5 | But we have survivors here and we need to help them. |
| 1:04.1 | It wasn't just the emergency response. |
| 1:06.7 | Video emerged of Erdogan from 2019. |
| 1:11.4 | He was boasting about fast-tracking housing by allowing contractors to ignore building |
| 1:16.7 | codes that were designed to help structures with stand earthquakes. |
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