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Turkey Between Europe, Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation | Sinan Ciddi - FDD
Episode Description
Sinan Ciddi is a Turkey expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), born in Istanbul, educated in the United Kingdom, and now based in Washington, D.C. In this conversation, he discusses Turkey under President Erdogan, democratic backsliding, the imprisonment of political opponents, Turkey’s economic crisis, and Ankara’s increasingly complex relationship with NATO, the EU, Russia, Israel, Syria, and Hamas. The episode also explores whether Turkey can return to democratic politics, strengthen its Western alignment, support Ukraine more decisively…
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