Turkey’s Elections: A Major Blow for Erdoğan? (w/ Greg Priddy)

01/04/2024 10 min Temporada 1 Episodio 16
Turkey’s Elections: A Major Blow for Erdoğan? (w/ Greg Priddy)

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Media coverage has depicted Turkey’s nationwide local elections on Sunday as a major blow for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party. How significant is this political defeat, and what does it augur both for Turkish and Middle East politics? In this episode, Jacob Heilbrunn speaks with Greg Priddy, a Senior Fellow for the Middle East at the Center for the National Interest. Priddy consults for corporate and financial clients on political risk in the region and previously served as Director for Global Oil at Eurasia Group.Music by Aleksey Chistilin from Pixabay