#Turkey: Erdogan after the election. Svante Cornel, American Foreign Policy Council. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
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#Turkey: Erdogan after the election. Svante Cornel, American Foreign Policy Council. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
Svante E. Cornell is a co-founder and Director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy. He is the Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, the Joint Center operated by ISDP in cooperation with the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC). Dr. Cornell is also a Senior Fellow for Eurasia at AFPC. His main areas of expertise are security issues and politics in Southwest and Central Asia, with a specific focus on the Caucasus and Turkey. He is the Editor in Chief of the Joint Center’s bi-weekly publications, the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst and Turkey Analyst, and oversees the Joint Center’s Silk Road Papers series of occasional papers.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-votes-pivotal-elections-that-could-end-erdogans-20-year-rule-2023-05-13/
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/heres-how-read-turkeys-election-results-so-far
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Turkey vote, the runoff on May 28th. |
| 0:38.0 | We welcome Svante Cornell, Svante's co-founder and director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy. |
| 0:46.0 | Director also of the Central Asia Caucus Institute and Silk Road Studies program. |
| 0:52.0 | Svante, a very good evening to you in Europe. |
| 0:56.0 | We're looking to the edges of Europe and Turkey. |
| 1:00.0 | And there's a headline from Reuters within these last hours. |
| 1:04.0 | Erdogan rival Mr. Kilich Darolou, the leader of the opposition. |
| 1:08.0 | Erdogan rival pledges to repatriate all refugees before Turkey runoff. |
| 1:13.0 | The explanation Mr. Taib, Erdogan's challenger, has sharpened his tone on migrants, |
| 1:21.0 | vowing to send all migrants back to their countries once elected in a runoff date. |
| 1:27.0 | This, of course, is a local matter having to do with the refugees who came from the catastrophe in Syria over these last years. |
| 1:37.0 | However, it speaks to Kilich Darolou looking for advantage over Erdogan. |
| 1:42.0 | What is your measure of Erdogan's prospects for extending his 23 years of authority? Good evening to you, Svante. |
| 1:49.0 | Great to be with you again. Well, I would say that Erdogan has a pretty strong prospects of extending his authority. |
| 1:57.0 | Obviously, this is not a level playing field and it never was in terms of an election. |
| 2:01.0 | We can also talk about how the opposition decided to field what I would consider to be the wrong candidate. |
| 2:08.0 | Candidate selection, as we know in the US politics, is important. |
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