Turkey’s Uprising is Still Going: Is This the Beginning of the End for Erdogan?

Murat Akad, a representative of the Communist Party of Turkey, joins the show to discuss the mass anti-Erdoğan protests erupting across Turkey (Türkiye) against the AKP’s crackdown on democratic freedoms. The widespread protests were triggered by the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, a political rival of President Erdoğan’s, but Akad explains that “there are many underlying factors” fueling the mass unrest. “People are angry,” says Akad, “the AKP’s legitimacy is fading… the governing alliance is falling apart.”