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Im stephen sackur. A dozen years ago, europeans looked to turkey and thought they saw a country becoming more like them, embracing Western Values and on a long term track to eu membership. But today, well, europe sees authoritarianism, conservatism, and repressionm embodied in the all powerful figure of president erdogan. My guest is elif shafak, the turkish novelist and writer who lives much of her life in london. Does the west get anywhere close to understanding turkeys complex culture and politics . Elif shafak, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. When you write of turkey today, i wonder what e...

And this budget is an example. Nick watt reports. We havent quite heard the first cuckoo, but spring will soon be upon us. As the buds slowly sprout, its time to prepare for future climates, both sunny and chilly. That was the spirit Philip Hammond invoked in the lead up to the budget. Expect to prepare for troubled times as the uk leads the eu. It actually turned out that spreadsheet phil is so comfortable in his dream job that we witnessed gag a minute phil as he cracked a joke about the last chancellor, who announced the demise of the Spring Budget. The treasury has helpfully reminded me th...

That grassroots dynamic will puncture the kind of cocoon of washington no matter how much influence there is on the other side. look, the same democrats for saying israel is not an apartheid state are people who listen to the -- apartheid state when they condemn russia or they condemned china. it's not logically consistent. >> i think there's a phrase for. it progressive except palestine. last question before we run out of time. in your view as someone who is jewish and written about antisemitism for many years, is primala jayapal, quick, was it racist, antisemitic to call israel racist? >> wh...

Fundamental shift happening in the political culture of the democratic party at the grassroots it's very hard to see how that doesn't continue and i think at a certain point that grassroots dynamic will puncture the kind of cocoon of washington no matter how much influence there is on the other side. look, the same democrats for saying israel is not an apartheid state are people who listen to the -- apartheid state when they condemn russia or they condemned china. it's not logically consistent. >> i think there's a phrase for. it progressive except palestine. last question before we run out of...

He's done in education, he calls it anti woke, i call it progressive, we can quibble about that. that said, that does scare a lot of people. that's why, to her point, if you're looking at a general election candidate that is going to rest some of those voters away from the democrats, not just the presidential level, but even down-ballot, i don't know that he's the guy. >> let's talk about some of the other people, republican establishment waiting in here. we saw some cnn town hall this week, with donald trump. we had republican governor, chris sununu of new hampshire, who is teased in 2004 pre...