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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Turks are at a historic turning point - choosing between two radically different visions for the future of their country.
With the battle for the presidency almost certain to go to a second round and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan facing his biggest challenge for two decades, Matt and a panel of experts explain what it means for democracy around the world.
Plus: Columnists Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on whether religion in politics can translate from the US to the UK, and Labour's plan to make working from home a legal right.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast, I'm Matt Chowley, being in the best of my timeshow |
| 0:08.0 | this show. |
| 0:09.0 | Don't forget you can listen live, free on your DOE radio, on your smartspeaker, or on |
| 0:12.4 | the timeshow radio app. |
| 0:13.6 | Coming up on today's episode, a turning point for Turkey, it's all hanging in the balance. |
| 0:19.9 | Is the Erdogan era coming to an end after 20 years? |
| 0:24.4 | Or is he going to continue in power? |
| 0:27.4 | You've got a very special big thing coming up today, speaking to both our colleague Ann |
| 0:32.0 | and Lucinda Smith, live in Turkey, and also people who know the country. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, that's coming up in just a moment, but first, it's our columnist panel. |
| 0:42.7 | The columnists with Libby Rachi, Libby Purvis and Rachel Silvestre, on times radio. |
| 0:48.9 | Right, let's turn our attention to the, I'm really interested in this thing that's |
| 0:54.4 | happening today, the National Conservatism Conference taking place in London. |
| 0:57.9 | It's been organized by right-wing American think tank to discuss the future of the |
| 1:02.0 | toy party. |
| 1:03.0 | Last week, I spoke to Paul Goodman, who's the head of the Conservative home, so a grassroots |
| 1:07.5 | website. |
| 1:08.5 | He told me he's not convinced the American ideology being discussed here, or catch on in |
| 1:13.2 | the UK. |
| 1:14.2 | Let's take a listen. |
| 1:15.2 | I've looked at their statements for principles, and right in the middle of it is a statement |
| 1:18.4 | that says in, in Christian majority countries, it says pretty plainly, we believe people should |
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