05 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: The Shapeshifting Sultan
Update: 2023-10-03
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Recep Tayip Erdoğan’s maintained power for over 20 years by being all things to all people.
Turkey’s president is at once a Western ally and a close friend of Vladimir Putin, a hardline Islamist and a leader that evokes the golden age of the Ottoman Empire. He is adored by his supporters and feared by his critics.
So who is he really and what future does he envision for Turkey?
Guests:
- Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of, The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey
- Meryem İlayda Atlas, journalist, founding editor of Daily Sabha and a board member of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT)
- Prof Ihsan Yilmaz, research chair in Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue at the Alfred Deakin Institute
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