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Has Turkey’s Prime Minister made a Twitter turnaround? BBC Trending heads to Istanbul to find out. On Sunday 10th August Turkey’s voters will go to the polling stations to select their first democratically elected President. Presenter Mukul Devichand is joined at Bilgi University in Istanbul to discuss the trends and memes of the elections and the changing voice on social media. The current Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the Justice and Development, or AK Party, has benefited from a huge campaign on social media as part of his bid for the presidency. But this is the man who had previously blocked platforms he’s now using, like Twitter and YouTube. We speak to Yavuz Degirmenci, part of the AK Party’s Istanbul branch about the role of social media this time around. Mukul also takes a walk through the election trends and memes that are tickling Turkey this week and finds out the latest on a blocked Twitter account leaking government information. He also looks into the digital legacy of the 2013 Gezi protests. Plus, from little screen to big screen: the story of a YouTube comedy series in the slums of Turkey’s capital city, Ankara. Mukul is joined on the panel by Professor Erkan Saka, Cagil Kasapoglu from BBC Turkish and BBC Trending’s Esra Dogramaci. The programme was produced by India Rakusen