I want to start with a sentence attributed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”. This could not be more applicable to recent developments in global politics. Turkey’s recent rapprochement of Israel is a good example that fits this description. The Government of Turkey seems
Yesterday, on February 1, Turkey’s social media users, especially Whatsapp users, were busy sharing a text and circulating it around. I must have received that text at least from fifty different sources. At first sight, there were many signs that it could be fake, but it seemed that its target audience was the opposition, and
What I mean by the confessions is not limited to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent u-turn about the electricity price hikes, in which he stated that the threshold for the low consumption was miscalculated because of the request of the electricity companies. At the beginning of 2022, the government announced further gradual price adjustments for
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has recently been actively constructing its political strategy on various topics, from appealing to Kurdish voters to bureaucracy. But the most recent developments necessitated us to add new propaganda and counter-propaganda tactics to the titles of CHP’s political strategy activities. The latest example was Kılıçdaroğlu’s Twitter broadcast on