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Murat Yetkin
16 May 2024, Thursday / Published in Politics

Türkiye-US rift over Israel-Hamas escalates

A few hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Hamas is “defending Anatolia’s frontline” in Gaza in Turkish parliament on May 15, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan appeared on a live NTV broadcast. Erdoğan grounded his assertion of “frontline defense” on the assumption that the radical government in power in Israil would eventually cast its
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Murat Yetkin
16 May 2024, Thursday / Published in Politics

Power play in Ankara: Bahçeli’s influence on Erdoğan

The phrase “Fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech” belongs to French philosopher Roland Barthes. Whether out of genuine necessity or strategic maneuvering, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli’s recent remarks, stating that “he smells coup plot” by linking the ongoing Ayhan Bora Kaplan gang investigation by the Ministry of Interior on
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Murat Yetkin
14 May 2024, Tuesday / Published in Politics

Türkiye’s new austerity program: Three questions on the bitter pill

Minister of Treasury and Finance, Mehmet Şimşek, finally unveiled long-awaited austerity measures in the public sector on May 13, under the watchful eye of Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz. Both underscored that these measures were meticulously crafted with the directive and approval of President Tayyip Erdoğan. Following the announcement, neither Yılmaz nor Şimşek take questions from
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Murat Yetkin
12 May 2024, Sunday / Published in Politics

Erdoğan-Mitsotakis: as long as nothing goes wrong…

The most important outcome expected from the May 13 visit of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Ankara as the guest of President Tayyip Erdoğan will be to avoid any unpleasantness. Yes, a series of protocols and agreements are on the table to fulfill the “Athens Declaration on Friendly Relations and Good Neighborliness” signed by
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Murat Yetkin
09 May 2024, Thursday / Published in Politics

DEM Party’s three cautionary notes on ‘normalization’ talks

The Democratic Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) emerged as the opposition party providing the most explicit support for the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) new Constitutional initiative. For instance, while the CHP leader Özgür Özel expressed a desire to see the proposal President and AKP leader Tayyip Erdoğan would bring forward, DEM Party
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Murat Yetkin
03 May 2024, Friday / Published in Politics

Türkiye halts trade with Israel amidst shifting global currents

In the past few days, Türkiye took two significant steps against Israel’s attacks in Gaza, which have claimed the lives of more than 35,000 Palestinians in the last six months. First, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced Türkiye’s decision to join in the case brought by the Republic of South Africa against Israel for genocide at
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Murat Yetkin
03 May 2024, Friday / Published in Politics

Özel-Erdoğan meeting yields first result: sustained dialogue ahead

The most significant outcome of the shift in the political landscape after March 31 local elections yet was the meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel. The meeting, which started at 4:00 PM on May 2 and lasted about 1 hour and 30 minutes, took place
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Murat Yetkin
29 April 2024, Monday / Published in Politics

Erdoğan uses constitution debate as a smokescreen to obscure problems

President Tayyip Erdoğan is using the constitutional amendment as a smokescreen to obscure and distract attention from the major problems ahead. On the night of April 28, days before Erdoğan’s meeting with CHP leader Özgür Özel, Chief Legal Advisor Mehmet Uçum published the text “What could be the main principles of the new constitution”, which
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Murat Yetkin
28 April 2024, Sunday / Published in Politics

İYİ Party under Dervişoğlu can change Turkish political balances

  Meral Akşener followed a line similar to that followed in Western democracies, albeit with some delay. First, she declared an extraordinary congress for the İYİ (Good) Party, giving herself a margin of error regarding the defeat of the opposition block in the 2023 elections. In the 2024 -local- elections, she took the failure of
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Murat Yetkin
28 April 2024, Sunday / Published in Economy

Two challenges of Şimşek: tax reform and public sector savings

The local elections are over. Not as the Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan intended, but as opposition CHP leader Özgür Özel wanted. Yet Erdoğan still has an economic crisis ahead of him. The way out of this crisis is the Medium Term Program (MTP) he entrusted to the Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek. The
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  • Proving it can disrupt the game if not invited: unseen power of Türkiye28 May 2025
  • Pro-gov’t paper Yeni Şafak slams Turkish economy: an anti-Şimşek op27 May 2025
  • US Ambassador Barrack: Syria will not be divided, no new Sykes-Picot26 May 2025
  • Özel to Erdoğan: “You are a local dictator. You will leave as you came.”20 May 2025
  • UK-Türkiye: More than just a free trade agreement on the horizon20 May 2025
  • Towards a simultaneous solution to Ukraine, Syria and the Kurdish issues16 May 2025
  • The PKK’s decision to dissolve and questions to the Turkish government13 May 2025
  • Turkish public awareness of the disbanding of the PKK is low: survey13 May 2025
  • Türkiye is at the threshold for a solution to its chronic Kurdish problem9 May 2025
  • Security is the new dynamic in EU-Turkish relations9 May 2025
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