Megan Gibson, our Senior Editor, International, speaks to the Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran.They discuss Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism – and the lessons the political situation holds for other democracies – as well as the country’s spiralling economic crisis and what chance a united opposition might have to defeat the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.If you have a You Ask Us question for the international team, email podcasts@newstatesman.co.uk.  Further Reading:With Turkey in crisis, Erdoğan leans into chaosErdoğan rising: the making of an autocrat Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.