How does geopolitics play out on one street? The residents of Istanbul carry on with their daily routines while reckoning with complex foreign-policy dynamics, which affect the entire neighborhood. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's authoritarian rise — against the backdrop of the US war on terror and the Syrian civil war — has forced the country  to newly contend with questions of nation and identity. 

In this episode, the Institute for Global Affairs' Jonathan Guyer is joined by journalist Suzy Hansen. She discusses her new book From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan in which she traces the country's political and social evolution as the Turkish president consolidated his rule and asserted power on the global stage. 

Find Suzy on X: https://x.com/suzyhans  

Read From Life Itself: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374298432/fromlifeitself/