Aykan Erdemir,  a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, former member of the Turkish parliament, Howard Eissenstat, associate professor of Middle East History at St. Lawrence University and senior non-resident fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy, discusses possible scenarios for Turkey’s domestic and foreign policies when one day power changes hands.

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Political repression and curtailed freedoms have earned Turkey a troubling reputation abroad in recent years. For generations of western artists and intellectuals in the 20th century, though, the country was a haven, and many congregated in Istanbul to lead a lifestyle of freedom, far from the Cold War repression of their own countries.