On Foreign Entanglements, Matt talks to Hugh, who is in Turkey, about how protests started in a park in Istanbul and grew into something much bigger and broader. Hugh argues that Prime Minister Erdogan’s harsh reaction to the protests was a rare miscalculation, but that he can turn this crisis into an opportunity. What’s been the reaction of the mysterious Gülen movement? How has Erdogan handled the Kurdish problem? They end by discussing implications for the US-Turkey relationship.
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