How the West ought to put together for the Turkish elections

Despite being a NATO member, Turkey has stayed impartial within the struggle in Ukraine and continues to dam Sweden’s accession to the alliance. Yet, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is healthier recognized domestically for his financial mismanagement and shoddy response to the earthquake that killed 60,000 folks in February than his authorities’s more and more aggressive worldwide technique. Presidential and parliamentary elections on 14 May may even elevate the prospect of a Turkey with out Erdogan.

In this episode, Mark Leonard welcomes ECFR’s analysis director Jeremy Shapiro and affiliate senior coverage fellow Asli Aydintasbas who’ve simply printed a commentary on how the West ought to put together for the Turkish elections. Can the opposition unity candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu pull off a victory? What would a post-Erdogan EU-Turkey relationship appear to be? And may Turkey’s EU accession negotiations restart?

This podcast was recorded on 27 April 2023.

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People walks on sidewalk in entrance of an image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hangs on Istanbul’s historic partitions, in Istanbul, Turkey, 23 April 2023