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Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of Turkey

Recep Tayyip Erdogan - President of Turkey

Is President Erdogan a danger to democracy in Turkey?

The Interview · BBC World Service

July 14, 201723m 31s

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Show Notes

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?