Once seen as a model of democracy, Turkey may be slipping toward autocracy. Critics charge that President Recip Tayyip Erdogan used a failed coup d’état in 2016 as a means of consolidating power – power he says is necessary to secure the state. Great Decisions producers traveled to Turkey to examine the relationship with this key U.S. ally.
Featured Guests:
- Elliot Ackerman, Author
- Akarca Mehmet, Director General of Press and Information, Republic of Turkey
- Mustafa Aykol, Writer and Journalist, Al-Monitor
- Pat Buchanan, Presidential Assistant
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Professor of Politics, NYU
- Soner Cagaptay, Author, the New Sultan & Sr. Fellow, Washington Inst. for Near East Policy
- Steven Cook, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Nicholas Danforth,Historian, Senior Policy Analyst, Bipartisan Policy Center
- Howard Eissenstat, Associate Prof., St. Lawrence University Sr. Non-Resident Fellow, POMED
- Lisel Hintz, Assistant Professor, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
- Amb. James F. Jeffrey, Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
- Saban Kardas, Assistant Prof-International Relations, TOBB University Ankara
- Alan Makovsky, Snr. Fellow, Center for American Progress
- Asli Peker, Prof.-International Relations Program, NYU
- Alina Polyakova, Director of Research-Europe and Eurasia, Atlantic Council
- Noah Rothman, Associate Editor, Commentary Magazine
- Mesut Zeybek, Wounded in July 15, 2016 coup attempt