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7th day of protests in Turkey after president's main rival jailed.

Hello. I'm Georgie, and I'm Phil.

In this program, we look at one big new story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.

You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode, as well as a worksheet, on our website, bbc learning english dot com.

So let him more about this story.

Acrim Imamalo, may of Istanbul, turkey's biggest city, has been jailed on corruption charges.

Since then, there have been seven days of protests, leading to violent clashes between protesters and the authorities.

Imamolu is seen as the main political rival to President Erdogan, who has been either president or prime minister since 2003.

Since being jailed, the main opposition party in the country declared In Mamelu their candidate for the 2028 presidential election.

His university degree had recently been annulled.

That's cancelled, which means he's not allowed to stand for election.

Let's have our 1st headline. This one is from the BBC.

6th night of protests in Turkey as Erdogan hits out at unrest.

That headline again. 6th night of protests in Turkey as Erdogan hits out to unrest.

And that's from the BBC. So this headline is from yesterday.

It's about the protests and the reaction of President Erdogan.

Erdogan has described the protest as evil and has blamed opposition parties.

He criticized the protests. And that gives us the expression we're learning here.

Hit out AT hit can mean something like punch strike some one hard with your hand, but when we use hit out at it's much more likely to be a metaphor.

Yes, it means to strongly or angrily criticize.

Here it's describing erdogan's criticism of the protests.

We can use it in a lot of different contexts.

Politicians often hit out at their opponents.

Customers might hit out at a company that they think has given them bad service.

Now, if someone hits out at you, you might want to hit back.

That means respond again in a strong or angry way.

So we've had hit out at criticized strongly.

E.G. businesses have hit out at the government's plans.

This is learning English from the news, our pocast about the news headlines.

Today, we're talking about the protests that have spread across Turkey following the jailing of istanbul's Mayor Ecram and Mamolu.

International responses to these moves by Erdogan have not been particularly strong.

A statement from the EU said that it raises questions, but they did not condemn the action, while the US State Department consider that it's an internal issue for Turkey.

And I makes headlines to just why the international reaction has not been more severe.

This is from Bloomberg. Erdogan bet's World will turn a blind eye to turmoil in Turkey.

And that headline again. Erdogan bet's World will turn a blind eye to turmoil in Turkey.

And that's from Bloomberg. Now, the expression we're going to learn here is turn a blind eye to it's a metaphor.

So imagine that you have one eye that you can see with and one that is blind.

If you choose to turn your blind eye towards a problem, then you are choosing not to see what is happening.

So we use turner blind eye to to mean ignore something bad.

So what this headline is saying is that Erdogan is predicting that the rest of the world will choose to ignore the turmoil here.

That means the protests in Turkey.

We often use turner blind eye to to mean ignore someone doing something wrong.

Yes. So if someone thinks that something is only a minor crime, they might turn a blind eye to it.

A paren't or teacher might warn someone doing something wrong by saying, I'll turn a blind eye to it this time.

But it needs to stop. We often use it in the negative, e.g.

We need to stop turning a blind eye, or I can't turn a blind eye to this, which means we shouldn't or can't ignore something.

We've had turner blind eye to ignore something bad.

E.g. Phil, I've been turning a blind eye to your lateness for far too long.

You need to start arriving on time.

Sorry. This is learning English from the news.

Our podcast about the news headlines.

Today, we're talking about protests which have followed the jailing of ecrem Imamalo.

Some people have criticized in Mamelus Arrest, saying that it's an attempt by Erdogan to remove a possible rival for the presidency.

The president has been criticized for

restricting political opponents and concentrating power in his own hands.

And that's the view of the writer of a 3rd headline.

This is from Jacobin turkey's Authoritarian and Turn.

And that headline, again from Jacobin Turkeys, authoritarian Turn.

We're looking at the expression authoritarian Turner Yes.

Authoritarian is an adjective that describes a system of government that has strong rules and strong leader who allows little opposition.

If you turn physically, you changed direction towards something yet.

So an authoritarian turn means a movement towards authoritarianism.

The author of this article believes that Turkey is becoming more authoritarian.

We can use the noun turn like this with different adjectives, often those related to politics.

We can talk about a democratic turn, a humanitarian turn, a nationalist turn, and many others.

They all mean change towards the situation described by the adjective.

We have authoritarian terms, a movement towards authoritarian government, e.g.

the trend towards strong national leaders.

Is evidence of a growing authoritarian turn across the world.

That's it for this episode of Learning English from the News.

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