My guest today is Dilara Hekimci-Adak. Dilara is a graduate student in Political Science at Florida International University in Miami, where she works on a PhD on populists in power and the role of the opposition in Hungary and Turkey. Before coming to the US, she had already done a PhD at Bahcesehir University, in her native Turkey, on clientelism and democracy in Latin America. She also wrote an MA thesis on nationalism and football in Turkey.
Dilara and I talk about football and politics in Turkey, including the role of Istanbul United in the Gezi protests and the rise and significance of the newest star in Turkish football, Basaksahir, popularly known as the AKP team.