What Turkey’s Elections Can Teach Us about Defending Democracy

04/25/24 • 32 min

James talks to Meghan Bodette of the Kurdish Peace institute about the recent elections in Turkey, the Van uprising, and aggression against Kurdish people in Europe and in Kurdistan.

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04/25/24 • 32 min

It Could Happen Here - What Turkey’s Elections Can Teach Us about Defending Democracy

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Speaker 100:00:01.760

Also media. Hi everyone, welcome to the podcast. It's me today and I'm joined by Meghan Burdett, who is the director of research at the Kurdish Peace Institute. Hi.

Speaker 200:00:13.320

Meghan, thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 100:00:15.560

Yeah, thanks for joining us. So what we wanted to talk about today was these local elections that have been happening in Turkey in the last