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Talking Turkey — 94 episodes

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1

EU losing credibility in eyes of Turkey - Muzaffer Şenel

2

Turkey fears a united EU - Karol Wasilewski

3

Greece-Turkey tensions could spur Cyprus talks - Fiona Mullen

4

Neither US nor EU have meaningful leverage over Turkey - Harry Tzimitras

5

Turkey-Greece talks could lead to deadlock again - Nicholas Ioannides

6

Turkey creating fear and anxiety among diaspora in Germany - Gerasimos Tsourapas

7

Horrifying, unlivable situation in Turkey-controlled Afrin -- Meghan Bodette

8

Macron, Erdogan use each other to reach nationalist voters - Guillaume Perrier

9

Erdogan gets away with murder when talking to Trump - Dimitar Bechev

10

There are thousands of Turkish spies in Germany - Sevim Dağdelen

11

We’ve reached the panic point on Turkey - Ghanem Nuseibeh

12

Arabs are wondering, is Erdogan all talk? - Nervana Mahmoud

13

Farmers in Turkey are seen as peasants - Mehmet Gurs

14

Deep admiration and respect for Kurds from Bakur - Ava Homa

15

Turkey should break silence and support Uighurs - Dolkun Isa

16

Erdogan cannot control the internet - Merve Tahiroglu

17

Troubling escalation in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict - Richard Giragosian

18

Turkish civil society is still raising its voice - Milena Buyum

19

Turkey’s East Med policy is sabotage - Doga Eralp

20

Turkey-Egypt conflict in Libya increasingly likely - Tarek Megerisi

21

What we don’t know about the failed coup is more than we do know

22

Hagia Sophia mosque would be Pyrrhic victory - Berk Esen

23

Turkey drilling near Crete could lead to war - Nikos Michailidis

24

Clumsy way Turkey’s AKP engages the diaspora - Alexander Clarkson

25

Converting Hagia Sophia can only be done once - Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir

26

Turkey plans to create buffer zone in northern Iraq - Bestoon Khalid

27

US-SDF alliance aggravates Turkey’s nationalistic anxieties - Güneş Tezcür

28

Erdogan’s loyal diaspora will come in handy on a rainy day - Magnus Norell

29

Deliberate act of political blackmail by Turkey - Vit Novotny

30

If Erdogan wants Trump to lose he should turn on S-400s -- Edward Stafford

31

Turkey knows it can be aggressive with Greece without any cost - Ryan Gingeras

32

Turkey appeasing Russia in Black Sea - Paul Pryce

33

Makes sense to draw Turkey-US parallels today - Lisel Hintz

34

Erdogan may not see Turkey’s future with US, West, or Russia - Blaise Misztal

35

Suicide for Assad to launch operation against Turks - Alexey Khlebnikov

36

I went to bed a judge and woke up a terrorist -- Yavuz Aydin

37

Women in Turkey are awakening - Melek Önder

38

Turkey's HDP is losing its base in Kurdish areas - Abdulla Hawez

39

Turkey shows how region is returning to 19th century - Ryan Bohl & Jalel Harchaoui

40

Turkey’s numbers don’t make sense at all - Inan Dogan

41

Turkish society is concerned about these freed convicts - Utku Cakirozer

42

Erdoğan to mayors: ‘I own the local as well’ - Sinem Adar

43

More authoritarian regime in Turkey post-corona - Yaman Akdeniz

44

Erdoğan has pushed people away from religion - Shadi Hamid

45

Huge economic contraction would shake Erdogan’s power - Emre Deliveli

46

There’s no trust of this government - Nurcan Baysal

47

Turkey’s atmosphere of paranoia - Kaya Genc

48

Turkey will face severe economic repercussions from coronavirus - Nick Danforth

49

It’s like living in a zombie movie - on corona isolation

50

Turkish government tried to suppress corona diagnoses - Steven Cook

51

Public will hold AKP accountable for failing to flatten the curve - Aykan Erdemir

52

We’re looking at prolonged crisis on Turkish border - Sasha Ghosh-Siminoff

53

The Turkish refugee crisis is just starting - Ayhan Kaya

54

AKP looks at Turkish population with disdain - Henri Barkey

55

The quieter the better for Turkey on Libya - Soli Özel

56

Turkey is shifting toward autocracy - Marc Pierini

57

Syrian Kurdish fighters have been very savvy - Max Abrahms

58

Demirtaş’s books make some people nervous - Kenan Sharpe

59

AKP has always sought to curb online debate - Erkan Saka

60

Gülen lost control of the movement - Ismail Sezgin

61

Greeks and Turks have the same stories - Soloup

62

Emirati priority in Libya is to prove Erdogan wrong - Jalel Harchaoui

63

Cyprus problem becoming more painful for everyone - Fiona Mullen

64

Turkey’s ‘anti-diplomacy’ in the eastern Mediterranean - Alexander Clarkson

65

Erdoğan must strike a balance in Libya - Dimitar Bechev

66

Turkey is not laughing anymore - Can Dündar

67

Erdoğan would be unwise to call early elections - Kristian Brakel

68

Persistent violence against women in Turkey due to lax law enforcement - Elmira Bayrasli

69

Turkish troops will dramatically change Libyan war - Michel Cousins

70

Worst crisis I’ve seen in U.S.-Turkey relations - Steven A. Cook

71

Turkey-Libya maritime deal is excessive and without legal basis - Yunus Emre Açıkgönül

72

We’ll be accused of coup plotting no matter what we do - Nate Schenkkan

73

History is taught from the top down in Turkey - Ryan Gingeras

74

Turkey and Europe are stuck with each other -- Dimitar Bechev

75

Turkey’s self-sabotage in Eastern Mediterranean - Alexander Clarkson

76

Turkish imams in Germany likely report back to Ankara - Hüseyin Çiçek

77

Global solidarity is opportunity for Kurds - Abdulla Hawez

78

Impossible for Turkey to drop S-400s - Ali Bakeer

79

Erdogan should be facing judges in the Hague - David L. Phillips

80

Qatar-Turkey alliance at its peak - David Roberts

81

Erdoğan isn’t going anywhere - Tezcan Gümüş

82

Turkey's terror policy is morally bankrupt - Blaise Misztal

83

Turkey’s Syria offensive is about domestic politics - Merve Tahiroğlu

84

Erdoğan able to influence, manipulate Trump - Aaron Stein

85

Turkey’s S-400 purchase just political bribery - Kerim Has

86

Turkey’s Syria offensive indefensible, yet inevitable - Kyle Orton

87

Trump set to throw Erdoğan under the bus - Nicholas Danforth

88

U.S. has no alternative to Turkey -Yusuf Erim

89

Wilgenberg: No matter what Turkey says, all Kurds will be targeted

90

Yaşar Yakış: Turkey could open Pandora’s Box in Syria

91

Discontent at Home, Misadventure Abroad: Turkey's Dual Crisis

92

The mobilising power of rage and grief - Lisel Hintz

93

Erdoğan plans to take Ankara and Istanbul - Professor Kuru

94

Scream out to the world that torture is a crime against humanity: purged Turkish diplomat