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When Armando Armas ran for office, he hoped to be a part of a movement to hold the ruling party accountable. Today, he reflects to us from exile about his challenges of staging an opposition and what he hopes for the future. Beatriz "Bibi" Borges, director of Centro de Justicia y Paz (CEPAZ), adds a perspective on the ground.

When Professor Emine Deniz started her research on businesses in Turkey, she found the same firms were always getting tax breaks, while others were audited and fined. How do connections with political rulers determine success, and how has this strategy kept Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in power?

Tune into our first episode, Turkey: Can Stock Markets Predict Election Outcomes? Next week, our hosts, Natalie Ayers and Pranjal Chandra, take us to explore the connections between businesses and the political class.