Beryl: Erdogan was very accommodating and even somewhat timid now no one would call him that. Over the years he's greatly consolidated his power by changing the structure of Turkey's government, she says. Beryl: You could see him all the time becoming much more confident and eventually really reveling in upsetting the US in particular Europe. He's found this to be domestically very fruitful in terms of voter support.
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for two decades. But he now faces a challenge in the country’s May 14 elections from a candidate representing a coalition of opposition parties. Bloomberg journalists Beril Akman, Marc Champion and Sylvia Westall join this episode to talk about why this election matters not just for Turkey’s domestic future–but for the important role the nation plays on the world stage.
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