What Next: How Erdogan Stays in Power

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has run Turkey in some capacity for 20 years. Even after his government’s slow, incompetent response to an earthquake and an ongoing economic crisis, the presidential election is heading to a run-off in two weeks. How does Erdogan keep hanging on? And could he finally be unseated? Guest: Suzy Hansen, author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Susan Hansen loves election day in Turkey.
0:10.7	The amazing thing about Turkish election day is that it's really like a Jubilee.
0:15.4	People love to vote here.
0:20.5	Susie lives in and reports from Istanbul.
0:23.5	I spoke with her Monday morning, the day after Turks went to the polls.
0:27.8	The turnout was a stunning 92%.
0:31.6	Yeah, it was incredible.
0:33.0	And the other thing that's great is that everybody votes at the local school in their
0:37.0	neighborhood and anyone can go and not only watch the voting, like a foreign journalist
0:41.4	like me, but you can also watch the votes be counted in the classrooms.
0:46.6	People are laughing and enjoying the experience.
0:50.2	What I saw was actually a kind of beautiful thing.
0:55.7	All 600 members of parliament were on the ballot this weekend.
0:58.9	But this election was mostly seen as a referendum on one man.
1:03.6	Turkey's president, Regip Tayyip Erdogan.
1:07.0	He's been in power one way or another for two decades.
1:10.3	It wasn't clear this time what was going to happen.
1:14.1	Turkey is experiencing a massive economic crisis.
1:17.4	All you hear about from people is how much they are suffering.
1:20.7	Tonight, votes are being counted in the most pivotal elections in Turkey's 100-year history.
1:26.7	Susie watched results come in from a neighborhood that's historically been a stronghold for
1:31.9	Erdogan.
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