That the dally. Pain in ankara at the office of the prime minister, Binali Yildirim. In this exclusive interview i asked him whether turkey is becoming more authoritarian after the recent controversial and closely fought referendum. Can the government bring together a divided nation . Prime minister Binali Yildirim, welcome to hardtalk thank you very much, you am most welcome to this beautiful country, turkey. Thank you. What is your response to critics who say the recent referendum has turned turkey into a dictatorship, that there will be one party rule and president of the gamble be like a latter day Ottoman Sultan . Erdogan. All right, so you kind of address to one aspect of the criticisms, which is that you had somehow rigged the vote, the party had, so that it would be in yourfavour. Vote, the party had, so that it would be in your favour. You said how you refute those allegations. But looking at the substance of what the constitutional chases changes will bring, the argument is t
Im in ankara at the office of the prime minister, Binali Yildirim. In this exclusive interview i asked him whether turkey is becoming more authoritarian after the recent controversial and closely fought referendum. Can the government bring together a divided nation . Prime minister Binali Yildirim, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much you are most welcome to this beautiful country, turkey. Thank you. What is your response to critics who say the recent referendum has turned turkey into a dictatorship, that there will be one party rule and president erdogan will be like a latter day Ottoman Sultan . Alright, so you kind of addressed one aspect of the criticisms, which is that you had somehow rigged the vote, the ak parti had, so that it would be in yourfavour. You said how you refute those allegations. But looking at the substance of what the constitutional changes will bring, the argument is that it will concentrate too much power in the hands of the presidency. That was the finding
Difficulties we faced in turkey is to explain this event to our international counterparts. It is very complicated and difficult to express, and one of the difficulties and one of the mysteries of this event is also tackles fighting against three terrorist organizations in the coup attempt, and also how turkey is in thiswith challenges era. We have to go back to the background to understand these. We will have four distinguished guests today. We will try to understand what happened in terms of Foreign Policy and Security Issues in the aftermath of the july 15 coup attempt. Also some background about this. Speakers. Have four isassador james jeffrey, who a distinguished fellow at washington institute. Our second speaker will be professor rene. She is an expert on Turkish Security of Foreign Policy. Our third speaker is criminal richard alston, colonel richard alston. The chair speaker is andecurity studies professor of international university. Seta mr. Ambassador. Let me tackle this fr
The july the 5th attempt. One of the difficulties we faced in turkey is explain this event to our international counterparts, its really well complicated and difficult to stress and one of the difficulties and mysteries of this event is also how turkey fighting against the terrorist organization in the aftermath of the coup attempt and how turkey is dealing with both challenges in this new era. Of course, both are very difficult and we have to go off the background to understand this. We will have four distinguished guests today. We will try to understand what happened in terms of Foreign Policy in the aftermath of july the 15th coup attempt. And also, some background about this development. So we will have four speaks, jeffrey, who is the distinguished fellow at Washington Institute for u. S. Policy, our second speaker will be profess or do nae from the university, Foreign Policy. Our third speaker is colonel richard houston, senior u. S. Army advise are and member of planning at u. S
Ill have all of the sport, as sponsors react to the news that has shocked tennis, big name backs are pulling the plug on Mar Shia Sharapova after she admitted to failing a drug test. Hello, the u. N. Is questioning the legality of an agreement which would see refugees and migrants in europe sent back to turkey. The high commissioner says it wants to know more about the safeguards in place to protect people. First jonah hull tells us about that deal between the e. U. And turkey. Reporter finally at the end of a long day and night, the break through they hoped for, the European Union has reached an agreement with turkey that they believe marks the beginning of the end of europes refugee crisis. This is a real game changer. The days of irregular migration to europe are over. Our objective is to discourage illegal migration to prevent human smugglers to help people who want to come to europe to through encouraging legal migration. Reporter the agreement means that in future turkey will tak