How Erdogan broke Turkey's democracy

Turkey and Israel: two Middle Eastern democracies in crisis.
Venetia Rainey talks to Süddeutsche Zeitung journalist Raphael
Geiger in Istanbul about why President Recep Tayyep Erdogan's
arrest of the city's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has sparked rare
protests, and what might happen next. 


Henry Bodkin, our correspondent in Israel, explains how the
sacking of Ronen Bar, the head of the internal security agency
Shin Bet, has sparked fears that Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu is consolidating unprecedented power and removing
critics.


Read:


'Netanyahu spy scandal leaves PM fighting on two fronts' by Henry
Bodkin:


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/22/netanyahu-spy-scandal-leaves-pm-fighting-on-two-fronts/


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