Since 2010, we have seen a backsliding in the Turkish democracy. The rights of certain groups of people, Kurds, secularists, these were curtailed. We are looking at journalists being jailed. And Erdogan and his lawyers have filed thousands of criminal complaints against citizens.
After 21 years of leading Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a global political giant. But a crumbling Turkish economy and the opposition candidate pose the biggest threat to his power in years.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.
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