Hosted by Ekin and Burcu · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 12 episodes
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Democracy doesn't collapse overnight—it follows a script. Join us as we decode America's current political crisis through the eyes of those who've seen it unfold elsewhere. Drawing on Turkey's experience and voices from across the globe, we explore the rise of autocracy and populism with guests who understand these forces intimately. This isn't just analysis—it's a search for solutions, guided by those who know that the past isn't just prologue, it's a roadmap. Hosts: Ekin Yaşin is the Director of Communication Leadership graduate program and a Teaching Professor at the University of Washington, where she designs inclusive and meaningful learning experiences for communities. She thinks and talks about the future of work, organizational communication, innovative teaching methods, and future of higher ed. Outside of work, she is a food, music, travel and literature enthusi
Ekin and Burcu hosts It All Happened Before, a news show with 12 episodes published.
When we talk about resistance, we tend to picture it: marchers in the street, dissidents with megaphones, confrontation made visible. But in societies where activists are monitored, journalists are constrained, and the c
Suzy Hansen's first book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, is one of the books we kept returning to in the conversations that eventually became this podcast. Her account of seeing
When mainstream media gets captured, the story doesn't end — it migrates. In Turkey, journalism moved from legacy newspapers and TV channels to scrappy independent websites, then to YouTube, and now to individual creator
The Democratic Party is trying to figure out what will work — and the competing forces within it are doing so loudly. In Maine, an oyster farmer and Marine veteran named Graham Platner pushed a sitting Democratic governo
In March 2025, masked federal agents arrested a Turkish PhD student on a Somerville sidewalk as she walked to break her Ramadan fast. Rümeysa Öztürk's offense, according to the Trump administration, was co-authoring a Tu
Americans have been talking about the "deep state" like it's a new discovery. It isn't. Derin devlet is a Turkish coinage — a phrase the rest of the world borrowed from a country that has lived inside conspiratorial poli
In 2014, a year after Gezi, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan moved into a 1,100-room palace built on Atatürk's protected forest farm — in defiance of court orders that ruled it illegal. In October 2025, Trump's crews demolished the
In this episode, we go deep into the role of family in political power, unpacking how nepotism operates under the cloak of democracy. From Donald Trump’s inner circle—Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump—to Turkey’s “damat” po
FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens to revoke broadcast licenses over war coverage. Pete Hegseth demands a more "patriotic press." These declarations feel almost theatrical — and that's exactly the point. They draw attentio
We started our media capture discussions last episode asking whether what's happening to American media is a rupture or a reckoning. Bilge Yesil's answer, drawn from decades of studying Turkish media, is clarifying and a
In this episode of It All Happened Before, Ekin and Burcu use the CBS controversy as a doorway into a much older story — how media capture works precisely because it doesn't announce itself. Drawing on Turkey's experienc
Burcu flew from Germany to Turkey for 36 hours just to vote. She went to the polls right after her back surgery. And still — she's not sure she fully trusts the outcome. In this episode of It All Happened Before, Ekin an
Some people are surprised by what's happening in America. We are not. It All Happened Before is a conversation between two people who grew up watching democracy erode in Turkey — and who now see the patterns repeating in
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