It is my great pleasure vertu introduce todays speaker David Phillips for director of the Columbia Institute of humanrights to talk about his new book to talk about the erdogan dictatorship who has long experienced through three president s in the state department from United Nations office in with his own scholarship he has written numerous topics on the turkish armenians reconciliation and o course, years of practice as well as for wall diplomacy. But today i will engage in discussion with parts of the book the and open that up to questions from the audience. So tell us david about what inspired you to write this and why the pressing need now concert with your book an uncertain ally . Guest i always get a message from someone in turkey lamenting their circumstances they have been fired from their job, the newspaper column has been taken away from them. I think 30 or 40 times over the years i am so disappointed with the trend that turkey has taken an 33 they always enjoyed a special o
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