TRT World Podcasts

Around the world, teenagers and even adults are turning to AI chatbots as if they were therapists. Why are people turning to AI for emotional support and why are experts warning that this illusion of empathy poses a danger.

Host/Producer: Afzal Ahmed

Craft Editor: Khaled Selim

Executive Producer: Nasra Omar Bwana

When historians look back at 2025, AI may stand out as the year’s defining global force. It quietly embedded itself into power, economies and everyday workflows. We explore the five shifts that stopped AI being the future - and became the present.

Host/Producer: Afzal Ahmed

Craft Editor: Khaled Selim

Executive Producer: Nasra Omar Bwana

Software underpins everything from hospitals to global air travel, yet a single glitch can ripple worldwide. In this episode, we discuss how interconnected systems amplify risk and what organisations can do to stop failures becoming systemic crises.

Renewed fighting along the Thai–Cambodian border has displaced hundreds of thousands and revived a dispute rooted in colonial-era maps and contested history. In this episode, we discuss why ceasefires keep collapsing and how nationalist narratives shape public opinion.

Host/Producer: Ezgi Toper

Guest: Dr. Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi

Craft Editor: Nasrullah Yilmaz

Production Team: Afzal Ahmed, Ahmet Ziya Gumus, Mucteba Samil Olmez, Khaled Selim

Executive Producer: Nasra Omar Bwana

This episode dives into the escalating rift between the United States and South Africa after US President Donald Trump skipped the G20 summit in Johannesburg and moved to bar Pretoria from attending next year’s summit in Miami.

Host/Producer: Ezgi Toper

Guest: Grace Kuria Kanja

Craft Editor: Nasrullah Yilmaz

Production Team: Afzal Ahmed, Ahmet Ziya Gumus, Mucteba Samil Olmez, Khaled Selim

Executive Producer: Nasra Omar Bwana

A young African man’s lifelong phobia of buttons reveals how ordinary objects can become overwhelming prisons and why phobias remain some of the most misunderstood human fears

Host/Producer: Afzal Ahmed

Craft Editor: Khaled Selim

Executive Producer: Nasra Omar Bwana

This episode breaks down how Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted for attempting to overturn Brazil’s 2022 election and explores what his imprisonment means for the country’s political future.

Host/Producer: Ezgi Toper

Guest: Luqman Nieto

Craft Editor: Nasrullah Yilmaz

Production Team: Afzal Ahmed, Ahmet Ziya Gumus, Mucteba Samil Olmez, Khaled Selim Executive Producer: Nasra Omar Bwana

What if we stopped posting on social media?

Episode Description: Is disconnecting the real key to happiness? This episode explores the shift from the fear of missing out to the joy of missing out, revealing how stepping away from social media can reduce stress and help us reconnect with real life

Host/Producer: Afzal Ahmed

Craft Editor: Khaled Selim

Executive Producer: Nasra Omar Bwana

Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Türkiye for the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea highlights the often forgotten key Anatolian roots of Christianity and its lasting global influence

Host/Producer: Afzal Ahmed

Craft Editor: Khaled Selim

Executive Producer: Nasra Omar Bwana

Reporting directly from COP30 in Belém, Brazil, this episode details the deadlocks over fossil fuel phase-outs and the unfulfilled $1.3 trillion climate finance gap for the Global South

Host/Producer: Ezgi Toper

Guest: Mikail Malik

Craft Editor: Nasrullah Yilmaz

Production Team: Afzal Ahmed, Ahmet Ziya Gumus, Mucteba Samil Olmez, Khaled Selim

Executive Producer: Nasra Omar Bwana