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
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Signup to Generate a PitchDemocracy 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.
It All Happened Before is hosted by Ekin and Burcu. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 14: On Rethinking the Words We Reach For (Season Finale)" (3 July 2026, 48 minutes), "Episode 13: We've Seen the Story Turn with Dr. Karabekir Akkoyunlu" (15 June 2026, 52 minutes), and "Episode 12: We've Been Walking Around Obstacles with Dr. Maria Repnikova" (3 June 2026, 64 minutes).
It All Happened Before publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 54 minutes across 15 episodes.
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Ekin and Burcu hosts It All Happened Before, a news show with 15 episodes published.
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Episode #14
For our final episode, we sat down without a guest to ask ourselves the questions we usually put to others. Has the podcast changed how we see Turkey, the US, and our own positions this season, and are we even reaching...
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As we explore the various forms of authoritarianism around the world these days, it can feel like there's no end in sight. That's why this week, we wanted to look for something else: a case that might offer some hope...
It All Happened Before
<p>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...
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<p>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...
Episode #10
<p>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...
Episode #9
<p>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...
Episode #8
<p>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...
Episode #7
<p>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...
Episode #6
<p></p><p>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...
Episode #5
<p>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...
Episode #4
<p>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...
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<p>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...
Episode #3
<p>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...
Episode #2
<p>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.</p><p></p><p>In this episode of It All...
Episode #1
<p>Some people are surprised by what's happening in America. We are not.</p><p></p><p>It All Happened Before is a conversation between two people who grew up watching democracy erode in Turkey — and who now see the...
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