E98 - Intro to Erdoğan w/ Gönül Tol

<p>Danny and Derek welcome Gönül Tol, founding director of the Middle East Institute's Turkey program and author of <em>Erdoğan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria</em> to discuss Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. They touch on his origins with AKP in the early aughts, his interactions with the military, his relationship with Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad, Erdoğan’s foreign policy, the effect of the Arab Spring on his tenure, how he’s approached “the Kurdish issue”, and more. </p><p> </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe</a>