Berk Esen on the political economy behind Turkey's democratic distress

<p class="western">Berk Esen, assistant professor of international relations at Bilkent University, on his paper “Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political economy account of the AKP's authoritarianism”, co-authored with Şebnem Gümüşçü for the Party Politics journal.</p> <p class="western"><a href='https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854'>Become a Turkey Book Talk member</a> to support the podcast and get English/Turkish transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the whole archive, a 35% discount on over 100 books in IB Tauris' Turkey/Ottoman history series, exclusive access to more links, and over 200 reviews covering Turkish and international fiction, history and politics.</p>