Why Turkey Has Finally Had Enough of Erdogan
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Erdogan has been leading Turkey for more than two decades now. But according to recent polls, it seems that support for himself and his party - AKP - has cratered to its lowest level ever. In this video, we take a look at why that is, and what drove his popularity in the first place.

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1 - https://tcf.org/content/report/turkeys-troubled-experiment-secularism/ 2 - https://www.economist.com/europe/2012/02/25/a-secularists-lament 3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Turkish_general_election#/media/File:2002_Turkish_General_Election_by_Province.svg 4 - https://www.ft.com/content/c10b3f24-1671-4514-83f7-f6f90d87ea5a 5 - https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/global-leader-approval 6 - https://twitter.com/metropoll/status/1248290597930242048 7 - https://europeelects.substack.com/p/europe-elects-newsletter-65f 8 - https://tradingeconomics.com/turkey/inflation-cpi 9 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-18/turkish-fx-reserves-shrank-by-record-in-week-before-elections 10 - https://tradingeconomics.com/turkey/interest-rate 11 - https://www.ft.com/content/f324cb00-5803-400f-87a3-944df7caed9f

00:00 - Introduction 00:54 - Context 03:07 - Erdogan's Popularity Explained 06:06 - Turkey's Economy 07:59 - Sponsored Content