what started as a battle over secularism has become something deeper. this episode traces turkey’s hundred-year struggle between military control and democracy, between religious conservatism and personal freedom and how erdoğan, once the underdog, became the system he fought.

now, with imamoğlu behind bars and protests erupting across the country, the real question is:

who gets to decide what turkey becomes next?

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