In power in Turkey for 20 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reasserting his authoritarian ambitions and his diplomatic balancing act between East and West as the Turkish Republic celebrates its centenary.
Special guest: Didier Billion, Deputy Director of the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS)
Content:
00:00 100 years ago, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded modern Turkey
02:05 Erdogan, the Turkish ambition
03:20 Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ambitions and diplomatic balancing act
07:07 Didier Billion: "We can't do without Turkey as a balancing factor"
13:22 Record inflation and currency crisis plague the Turkish economy
15:43 Didier Billion: "The difficulty with Erdogan, who is an outstanding negotiator, is knowing where to place the cursor"
22:15 Erdogan steps up repression against the Kurds
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