The Power of Words: Views on Turkey and Europe
summary
An award-winning novelist whose work appears in more than 40 languages argues that EU–Turkey ties peaked around 2005–06 and that failing membership talks helped enable a steady democratic backslide; cites 1.7 million Twitter followers as evidence social media shapes political life, notes Turkey’s population near 80 million, recalls three military coups (1960, 1971, 1980) that rolled democracy backwards, and calls for renewed cosmopolitanism over shrinking identities.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45EU-Turkey relations challenges
- 2:08Turkey’s EU membership prospects
- 3:54Cultural misconceptions and identity
- 6:21Europe’s fading moral leadership
- 8:48Turkey’s polarization and social media
- 12:22Turkey’s diversity beyond politics
- 14:51Europe’s response to Turkey’s coup
- 16:36Turkey’s future and EU dream
- 18:18Closing remarks
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