Reporting abroad – and also discussing political events abroad – has a problem: it has to compete for people’s attention with what’s happening on their doorstep (or, because there’s not really much happening on their doorstep: with what’s happening in the further radius happens). So how do you talk about Turkey’s election, which will decide the future of democracy in a country of 85 million people? About the future of refugee deals, about the future of a region in turmoil? About the, as the FDP foreign policy expert Alexander Graf Lambsdorff put it right at the beginning: “the most important election of the year. Period. All over the world”?
“Tough but fair” on Turkey’s elections: Yücel doesn’t want to take part in the integration debate – media
