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Murat Yetkin
09 May 2022, Monday / Published in Economy

Will censoring a comedy skit on Minister save economy?

I was once a screen regular of Turkey’s one of the leading comedy writer Gülse Birsel’s TV Show European Side/Avrupa Yakası. Recently, I am hooked on Ali Sunal and his team’s Güldür Güldür comedy sketch show on Show TV. Last Saturday night, the show advertised that among the sketches to be aired after the commercial
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Murat Yetkin
29 April 2022, Friday / Published in Politics

Erdoğan’s Head-Spinning Maneuvers: Pushing the Boundaries

World is watching Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s head-spinning foreign policy maneuvers closely, both with appreciation and caution. One day, Erdogan send United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres off to Moscow as the Secretary General is scheduled to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensy. On the other day, we see Turkey’s president
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Murat Yetkin
28 April 2022, Thursday / Published in Politics

A hit or a gift to Turkey’s six-party opposition table?

Turkey’s opposition coalition partner Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) leader Ali Babacan announced on April 27 that his party will enter the election with its own name and organization, stirring a debate if that move is a consequence of a crack in the 6-party opposition alliance. The alliance has been discussing new election strategies after
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Murat Yetkin
22 April 2022, Friday / Published in Politics

Opposition Leader’s Sit-In Act in Darkness

The photo above is hard to digest. An image that depicts current Turkey, a hard pill to swallow. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), and his wife, Selvi Kılıçdaroğlu, were filmed addressing the public via social media, in the light of kerosene lamps, in their homes with no electricity. It
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Murat Yetkin
20 April 2022, Wednesday / Published in Politics

A knife-edge balance in foreign policy: USA-Russia, Israel-Iran

The fact that the Turkish Armed Forces was represented by three brigadier generals at the Iran Armed Forces Day event in Ankara on the evening of April 19 was the surprise of the night for me; a high level of participation. Hurşit Ağırcan, Director General of Maps of the Ministry of National Defense, who is
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Murat Yetkin
20 April 2022, Wednesday / Published in Politics

Erdoğan signals a u-turn on Syrian refugees

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu asked four questions to President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government about Syrian refugees on a giant banner displayed at the CHP headquarters on April 18:1- Have you requested asylum seekers to prove their real identity information?2- Why are you granting citizenships recklessly,
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Murat Yetkin
18 April 2022, Monday / Published in Politics

Turkey launches new operation against PKK in Iraq

The Turkish Armed Forces launched a large-scale military operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) camps in Iraq late at night on April 17. Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar announced on the Ministry’s Twitter account in the morning of April 18 that “the targets detected in the first phase were captured” in the
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Murat Yetkin
14 April 2022, Thursday / Published in Politics

Ankara: “New Cold War” may bring new alliances

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s spokesperson İbrahim Kalın made two broadcasts one after the other on social media on April 13. The most important part of his statements was that he made an assessment that “we have entered a new cold war period.” Another important assessment he made is that he said “new balances will be
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Murat Yetkin
13 April 2022, Wednesday / Published in Economy

Erdoğan skips today’s troubles: future will be bright

Turkey’s cabinet meeting conveyed on April 12 amid pro-government media’s spins that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) ministers will announce new measures for current economic crisis, such as increase in pensions or additional holiday bonuses. They wrote that that the increase in the prices of basic goods to be precluded, the low-income citizens
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Murat Yetkin
11 April 2022, Monday / Published in Politics

Right will face far-right in France. What about Turkey?

In France, there was no winner in the first round of the presidential election on April 10. The current president and Le République en Marche candidate Emmanuel Macron gained 28.6 percent, and Rassemblement National candidate Marine Le Pen gained 23.9 percent of the votes and were the two candidates to compete in the runoff on April 24. In summary,
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