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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC News North America

In a special edition of the programme, Zeinab Badawi is in Istanbul to speak to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It is a year since coup plotters tried to remove him from office in a series of events that were condemned by the international community and Turks from all backgrounds and political persuasions. But now hundreds of thousands of Turks have been on the march protesting at what they say is President Erdogan's purge of all opposition forces - not just the coup plotters. Is President Erdogan a danger to democracy in Turkey? Show less

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Presenter:
Zeinab Badawi
Interviewed Guest:
Recep Erdogan

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