Podcast: The End of Cosmopolitan Turkey

The New Statesman’s World Review podcast with Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - JULY 24: In this handout picture released by the Turkish Presidential press office, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and invited guests attend Friday prayers at Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque during the buildings first official prayers after being reconverted into a mosque on July, 24, 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Handout/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Getty Images)

On this week’s episode of World Review, Jeremy Cliffe, in Berlin, and Emily Tamkin, in Washington DC, are joined from London by British-Turkish novelist, journalist and activist Elif Shafak to discuss President Erdogan’s controversial changes to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and the role of nationalist strongmen across the globe. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your question on what British can do to aid the Uighur and Rohingyas.

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