Khalych da Raul was born in the Eastern province of Túnjili, in Turkey. He is an alibi, a minority group that follows the faith drawing on Shiite Muslims and Sufi traditions. In person he's very mild-mannered. Quite different from Erdogan. They call him Turkey as Gandhi. Kilesh Taro'lou's colleagues say he is soft-spoken like Mahatma Gandhi.
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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