How To Lose Your Country, with Ece Temelkuran (Part One)

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  Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.

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  I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.

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  Today's episode is part one of our recent live event with writer and political thinker,

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  Eche Temmel Curran.

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  Esho Temelkurin is the award-winning Turkish author who was forced into exile for her critical views of President Erdogan.

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  She is best known for her books How to Lose a Country and its follow-up Together,

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  which explore how the world's democracies are sleepwalking into authoritarianism and how we might be able to defend democracy and learn the lessons of resistance across the globe.

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  Temul Kuram was joined by podcaster and journalist Coco Khan at the Kiln Theatre to discuss the global rise of fascism.

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  Let's join our host Coco Khan now with more.

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  Hello, hello, hello.

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  Thank you Margarita and thank you everyone

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  for joining us this evening to talk about how fucked we all are.

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  God!

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  It's a delight to be sat next to Ece Temul Kuram, one of the...

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  I would say...

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  most interesting, exciting, beloved, influential political thinkers of our times.

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  You've drawn comparisons to David Graber, Yanis Faroukakis.

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  You know, she's a big deal.

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  So I need to make sure that I don't basically turn this into therapy for progressives,

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  because really what I want is for you to give me and this audience some hope,

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