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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 repression 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 emotions draw you . W...

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 repression 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 emotions draw you . W...

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...

Processing problem and a cognitive issue because like those evangelicals in georgia the progressives desperately want control of the senate. at least i'm in good company. on msnbc, andrea mitchell had this exchange with terry mcauliffe, former virginia governor and dnc chair about the pennsylvania and georgia races. >> they have an extreme agenda. now, if we keep the united states senate with all these judges that are coming in, we'll stop them from a nationwide abortion ban and that's the stakes of this election. >> let me ask you this just to play devil's advocate. >> sure. >> if the bigger ...

Alienate them and potentially, again, cause them to raise prices even further? paul: a couple of other things, dan, that the democrats have threating -- threatening is, one, stop arms sales to the saudis and withdrawing the 3,000 troops in saudi arabia who are on the ground there. good ideas? >> no, they're not good ideas. and i think the saudis recognize what's going on here, paul, is these are democratic ideas that have been in the hopper for a long time. the democratic party is basically being directed by the progressives, and the progressives have been anti-saudi for a long time just as th...