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How Gaza Changed the Turkish Elections

Recep Erdoğan’s right-wing AKP party faced major defeats in the recent Turkish elections.

One of the main factors contributing to this outcome was Erdoğan’s inability to get the cost of living under control but another was AKP’s policy towards Gaza.

While paying lip service to the Palestinian cause, AKP did very little to support Gaza.

Anil Çinar, a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Turkish Communist Party, joins the show to explain the different factors that contributed to AKP’s lackluster election night.

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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