According to polling Metropoll’s post-election survey, 23 percent of those who voted for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s coalition and 29 percent of those who voted for the opposition want another party they could vote for. Truly, there is a part of society that is unhappy with the way the country’s progress in the rule of
Will Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan be invited to the informal meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers of European Union in Toledo, Spain to be held on August 30th? This question is seeking an answer within the busy schedule of the Foreign Ministry these days. Because this meeting will be an indicator for President Tayyip Erdoğan’s
Since the July 11 – 12, 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Turkey – European Union relations have started to be discussed again. However, it is important to see if there is any substance to this debate. Relations have gone backwards, especially since the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, the seventh anniversary of which we just
Journalists’ Union of Türkiye (TGS) has recently published a new report titled “Journalism in Turkey: Perception and Profile Survey,” which included striking results that most journalists receive low salaries, work 45 hours or more per week under serious pressure and without many social rights. That got me thinking about the term “activist journalist” which is
After signing a series of tax hikes over the weekend, President Tayyip Erdoğan is traveling to the United Arab Emirates this week in search of investment and debt. On July 17-18, he will attend the G20 meetings in Gandhinagar, India, where he will be joined by Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek and Central Bank
President Tayyip Erdoğan left Türkiye on July 10 to attend NATO Summit in Lithuania saying, “First pave the way for Türkiye in the European Union, and then we will pave the way for Sweden.” After a two-hour flight, he landed in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where the summit will be held on July 11-12.
In an unexpected move, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan linked Sweden’s application to the Western defense alliance NATO on July 10 with practically frozen relations of Türkiye with the European Union (EU). “First, let’s pave the way for Türkiye in the EU, and then we will pave the way for Sweden just as we did for
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has signed a series of presidential decrees that raise the value-added tax (VAT) rate from 18 percent to 20 percent and increase public fees by 50 percent. The decrees, which took effect immediately on July 7 also raise the revenues from betting to 10-15 percent and the Banking and Insurance
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on July 5 announced a further deceleration in the skyrocketing inflation hike in the country to 38 percent as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 3 percent in June. TurkStat announced on July 5 that the CPI rate increased by 3,92 percent in June and that the annual CPI was
President Tayyip Erdoğan’s re-election, in perhaps the most disadvantageous period of his rule since 2002, reveals the need to name “Erdoğanism” in Turkish politics, which has become a separate phenomena from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) he founded. Erdoğanism in numbers and beyond Erdoğan received 49.5 percent of the vote and the AKP 35.6
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