How does geopolitics play out on one street?The residents of Istanbul carry on with their daily routines while reckoning withcomplex foreign-policy dynamics, which affect the entire neighborhood.Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan's authoritarian rise— against the backdrop of the US war on terror and the Syrian civil war— has forced the country to newly contend with questions of nation and identity.
In this episode, the Institute for Global Affairs' Jonathan Guyer is joined by journalistSuzy Hansen. She discusses her new book From Life Itself:Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan in which she tracesthe country's political and social evolution as the Turkish presidentconsolidated his ruleand asserted poweron the global stage.
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