This third series of the Breaking Britain Podcast will take a closer look at how the strategic challenges facing the UK interact with crisis and change around the European Union and its neighborhood. This week, we've invited Selim Koru to join us here at the European and International Studies Department at KCL to discuss the parallels and differences between populist politics in Turkey and populism in the UK and the EU. To understand how Turkish politics is intertwined with developments in the EU and UK, we've also explored how relations between Turkey and its European partners have evolved over the past decades.
As a scholar and commentator of Turkish politics, Selim Koru has regularly explored the power structures that have enabled President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to sustain his grip on the Turkish state for over two decades. Currently a researcher at the University of Nottingham, since 2011 Selim has also produced incisive analysis of key developments in Turkish politics at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey and the Foreign Policy Research Institute.