The Lede
The Lede
New Lines Magazine
How Authoritarianism Came to One Istanbul Street
46 minutes Posted Jun 1, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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On this week's episode of the podcast, journalist and author Suzy Hansen joins Faisal Al Yafai to discuss how ordinary people experience authoritarianism in the 21st century, what a decade spent in one Istanbul neighborhood reveals about Turkey under Erdoğan, and why the West so often misreads the Middle East, as set out in her new book, "From Life Itself."
Produced by Finbar Anderson