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Turkish journalist, blogger and media expert. Writes regular columns for The Arab Weekly and contributes to Süddeutsche Zeitung, El Pais and the Guardian. An European Press Prize Laureate for 'excellence in journalism' in 2014, Baydar was awarded the prestigious 'Journalistenpreis' in Germany by Südosteuropa Foundation in February 2018.
Among many others, here is a striking conclusion about the election results in Turkey, by Steven Cook, an expert on the Middle East, Turkey and Egypt:
Sunday’s Turkish election is a perfect example of post-truth politics. There are two competing narratives that partisans on both sides believe in fiercely. They respond ferociously to any effort to question their particular truth even if there are good reasons to do so. The unfortunate result is more anger, greater polarization, further instability, and a deepening of authoritarianism. This is Turkey’s present, but it is the wave of the future.
Held under the hard regime of emergency rule, where ballotbox security was at stake across the nation, with thousands of Kurdish politicians kept in jail, and a split opposition unable even to establish an independent vote count system for election night, the results will remain – perhaps forever – open to all sorts of speculation, ranging from votes having been hijacked en masse and fraud to a calculated 'election coup'.
This is an election whose effects inside Turkey, on its neighborhood and on its place in world politics will be long-lasting.
What will be the ripple effects and major consequences?
Here in this podcast, Henri Barkey, senior fellow for Middle East studies at CFR and former member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, and Steven Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at CFR, discuss and assess the election outcome, and what it will mean for the years to come.