Journalist-Writer
Ten days before the critical elections, current state of politics has been shifting rapidly. More precisely, it is shifting to the direction of opposition wing, while it is almost concrete in the ruling wing. For example, while President Tayyip Erdoğan is still giving speeches lasting no less than an hour about how many roads and
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu described the upcoming May 14 elections as a “political coup” plot, erupting a furor as opposition reacted harshly to the comment. “July 15 was their de facto coup attempt. May 14th is their political coup attempt. It is that clear and unambiguous. May 14, 2023, is the West’s political coup
Following a two-day contraversy over his health condition after falling ill during a live television broadcast, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appeared on a video conference for the inauguration ceremony of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant on April 27, resolving the rumours that he was gravely ill or even hospitalised. Russian President Vladimir Putin was
There has been a remarkable change in the assessments of foreign diplomatic missions in Ankara in the last month, regarding the result of the May 14 elections in Türkiye. Until recently, there was little doubt in the assessments of countries and international organizations that President Tayyip Erdoğan would make a last-ditch push and win the
Türkiye’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader and six-party alliance’s presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu posted a video on his Twitter account with a one-word title: “Alevi”. Within 20 hours, the post had received more than 80 million interactions on the social media platform and had been shared by 64 thousand users. Two days before
Russia does not hide the fact that it is in favor of Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan winning the upcoming 2023 elections in Türkiye. Their domestic interests require such support. With the S-400 issue, they started a debate in NATO over Türkiye that they could not have caused if they had spent billions of dollars on
Until last week, President Tayyip Erdoğan had not been utilising the US-bashing discourse. The foreign policy items such as demand for the F-16 fighter jets, the YPG issue in Syria, and the $100 billion trade volume prevented him from using the anti-US rhetoric that would have cemented his image as a world leader in the
This was my first thought when I saw a photo of Humza Yousaf, the leader of the Scottish National Party, leading his family and Muslim team members in prayer after breaking their fast on his first day in the first minister’s residence. Could the first Muslim Prime Minister of a European Union member state be
First, let us try to explain why Türkiye lost an arbitration case brought by the Iraqi government in 2014, which resulted in Türkiye being ordered to pay 1.4 billion US dollars in compensation. We should add that he International Chamber of Commerce’s International court of Arbitration in Paris also found the Iraqi government guilty of
The title of this article could have been “What else should Kılıçdaroğlu do?”. But with the ideological and political answers to this question, the article could have stretched in two different directions, which would have been insufficient to explain the front-politics that brought Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the CHP and the presidential candidate of