The people of Karagümrük in Istanbul watched Erdoğan improve their lives for a decade before noticing what was being taken from them. @ekoshy.bsky.social & I talk to Suzy Hansen who wrote about this shift and what it feels like to watch the US thru TR itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/p/episode-11...
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Suzy Hansen's first book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, is one of the books we kept returning to in the conversations that eventually became this podcast.