Enver Pasha vs. Recep Erdogan

In this episode the hosts discuss the lives and legacies of Ottaman ruler Enver Pasha and Turkish President Recep Erdogan. These two dictators battle it out in Round 8 of the knock-out tournament to determine the single greatest dictator of all time.  The hosts discuss Enver's rise to power, the trickery deployed to drag The Ottoman Empire into World War One and the genocide orchestrated against the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians. They also discuss Erdogan's rise and ruthless consolidation of power, his undermining of Turkish secularism and democratic institutions, his Islamist domestic policies and controversial foreign policy.   One of these two dictators will be eliminated from the tournament and the other will remain in contention to be crowned history's biggest dictator.