Christiane Amanpour

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis insisted Tuesday that Greece will be able to regain investment grade with a strong New Democracy government and that his "his victory over populism in Greece" serves as a lesson "for other liberal democracies."

"If you deliver real change for people, people will reward you," he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has rejected criticism that he has been "waging a war" against press groups, saying "criticism" should not be confused with "insult and defamation."

Speaking to CNN International's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview in Washington, where he was to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, Erdo?an said he was "not at war with the press."

Turkey rarely runs out of bitter political irony. At exactly the same moment as Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu was reading out his government's program in parliament live on television, a news channel ran the typical "breaking news" ticker: "Prosecutors demand up to 20 years in jail for [Cumhuriyet] journalists [Can] Dündar and [Erdem] Gül." As the ticker kept running on the screen, Mr.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu was on CNN International.

Christiane Amanpour did not chew her words; she kept asking and asking.

For instance, she forwarded this question:

"[President Recep Tayyip] Erdo?an and the [Justice and Development Party] AKP inside and outside of Turkey... is being defined as autocratic, tyrant, polarizing, conflictual, paranoiac? What say you?"

CNN?s Christian Amanpour conducted a live interview with HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirta? on June 8, following the party?s electoral success, introducing Demirta? as ?the man who took on Erdo?an.? 

Click here to read the transcript of the interview.