turks will wake up on may 14th to vote both for political parties and a presidential candidate. In 2023 this is the hundredth anniversary of the republic that atatok founded, erro on has been working towards refounding turkey's history. Erro on was secularized turkey and there was a whole mythology around it so he wants to kind of refound the republic with a different kind of ethos in his own image.
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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