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The Good Fight

Why Erdoğan Won

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Nora Fisher Onar is an associate professor of international studies at the University of San Francisco and author of the forthcoming book Contesting Pluralism(s): Islam, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Nora Fisher Onar discuss how President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prevailed despite economic turmoil and a bungled response to the severe February earthquake; what international observers may overlook or misunderstand about Erdoğan’s appeal to Turkish voters; and what Erdoğan’s victory means for the country’s strained democracy, institutions, and economy. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I've heard lots of anecdotal accounts of how even within the conservative

0:34.8

constituency there's a kind of disenchantment with the whole sort of

0:37.8

of religious rationale for a more illiberal even authoritarian kind of government

0:42.4

and society.

0:43.7

And so there are lots of young women from conservative families who are choosing to

0:48.4

unveil for complicated reasons.

0:50.0

There is that secular expectation that as time passes people will become more secular and less

0:56.3

villages that does seem to be playing out sociologically. You know anthropologists look at things happening in Turkey or sociologists engaging

1:04.4

in that sort of fine-grain kind of level of cultural analysis.

1:08.2

How that translates into voting patterns seems to be very much minimal compared to the juggernaut of conservative nationalism,

1:15.9

religious and secular alike that carried the day in Turkey these past two weeks.

1:21.0

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

1:24.0

I feel like one of my tasks in these spials for the podcast is to keep track a little bit with the rise and the

1:38.3

supposed fall of populism around the world.

1:42.1

There was some good reason for hope for a little while.

1:45.9

We had two generally good pieces of news in the United States and in Brazil

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