Erdogan has been extremely successful in exploiting the post-truth environment. He's popular with his base. His base is about half the country. The other half of the country went out this weekend and voted for someone else. Turkey has seen its track record basically deteriorate in all of those aspects.
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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