Is this the beginning of the end of the erdogan era quest and mark coming to you from berlin quadriga, peter welcome to this latest edition of quadriga from berlin. We are addressing a fascinating question today. Is it the end of the erdogan era . To address that question and possibly try to answer it, im joined by three expert commentators. Without any further undo, i would like to introduce them. Beginning with dilek kurban, a specialist on turkey at the Hertie School of governance. She says what we are seeing is a transition to a truly representative parliamentary democracy and the end of oneman rule. Tom goeller joins us also today. He has worked for Many International media outlets. Currently, hes a freelance journalist. Erdogan, he says, will find a way to have the election related so his party can claw its way back to power. Last but not least, ursula weidenfeld, who has worked for a range of germanys most prestigious business publications. She believes that president erdogans p
Is this the beginning of the end of the erdogan era quest and mark coming to you from berlin quadriga, peter welcome to this latest edition of quadriga from berlin. We are addressing a fascinating question today. Is it the end of the erdogan era . To address that question and possibly try to answer it, im joined by three expert commentators. Without any further undo, i would like to introduce them. Beginning with dilek kurban, a specialist on turkey at the Hertie School of governance. She says what we are seeing is a transition to a truly representative parliamentary democracy and the end of oneman rule. Tom goeller joins us also today. He has worked for Many International media outlets. Currently, hes a freelance journalist. Erdogan, he says, will find a way to have the election related so his party can claw its way back to power. Last but not least, ursula weidenfeld, who has worked for a range of germanys most prestigious business publications. She believes that president erdogans p
He would be critical now. Know, i think above the donald trump thing, his first reaction would be, what happened to the idea of Public Service . why are we having some guy who thinks his business qualification his qualification is business . Askedt himself if you had him, why are you qualified to be president , he would say, because i have served the public selflessly, and that was true, since i was a young man. He had been a congressman, secretary of state. His own definition of sacrifice and even of heroism all had to do with the idea i am here for the republic. That is my purpose. And i think he would be sort of saddened and second by this sort of discussed with which people talk about the idea of service. Brian what would he think about a former secretary making 225,000 to give a speech . James that is an interesting question. In his day, politics was not a root cause. It was the opposite. When he was a young man, he ran for the state legislature of massachusetts. All of his friend
He was a censorious fellow. He was critical then. He would be critical now. You know, i think above the of the donald trump thing, you know, his first reaction would be, what happened to the idea of Public Service . why are we having some guy who thinks his qualification is that he was a businessman . He was very close to the republic and he felt himself if you had asked him, why are you qualified to be president , he would say, because i have served the public selflessly, and that was true. Since i was a young man. He had been a congressman, secretary of state. His own definition of sacrifice and even of heroism all had to do with the idea of i am here for the republic. That is my purpose. And i think he would be sort of saddened and second by this sort of disgust with which people talk about the idea of service. Brian what would he think about a former secretary making 225,000 to give a speech . James that is an interesting question. In his day, politics was not a route to wealth. Wa
That europe has a responsibility to take in refugees. Despite protests from some antimigrant groups, Mainstream Society still appears to back the governments stance that europe needs to help. But when i hear the debate back in my home country of britain, you get the feeling that most british people regard it as a problem for the rest of europe to solve. And its because of this antimigrant sentiment in the uk that some Asylum Seekers have found themselves marooned on a British Military base in cyprus. Legally on british soil. But in reality far away from the british isles. Reporter destiny has all the things a child could ask for. And perhaps its destinys fate that she and her brother mills find themselves in europe on the island of cyprus. Here they have a room of their own, full of stuffed toys. But their father tag bashir had to build all of this himself. Originally from sudan, hes been stranded on cyprus for 17 years. They didnt give me anything to help me to do this house. They don