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Germany and France have been awarding human rights defenders worldwide with its Franco-German Human Rights and Rule of Law Award since 2016. This year, French and German diplomats in Turkey deemed Nebahat Akkoç, the founding president of Diyarbakır-based women’s rights foundation KAMER, worthy of the award. Akkoç received her award in a ceremony held at
Professor of Law Dr. İzzet Özgenç, who advises President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on economic issues, stirred a debate with his social media post yesterday as he said we should be prepared for the declaration of the State of Emergency because of the current state of the Turkish economy. With this message, the efforts of the
“Turkey’s economy suffers because of the foreign attacks.” That was the prominent discourse of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for years. They instrumentalized this discourse to give an account for problems in domestic politics, stating that the attack of the West caused the issues. However, that discourse no
Of course, not all Kurdish voters are living in East and South-East Turkey. That is a well-known fact that Istanbul hosts the densest Kurdish population globally. It was the Kurdish voters that determined June 23 2019, local elections where Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has taken the Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor seat after 25
Daily Hürriyet newspaper’s senior politics op-ed writer Abdulkadir Selvi broke backstage news yesterday. He said that the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu met his party’s Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. The breaking news was that the leader of the main opposition met his party’s mayor, pointing to a question whether there will be
“Dressing the wound” is a term which Necmettin Erbakan, the founder of the National Outlook Movement that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Tayyip Erdoğan have emerged from, used in the 1970s. He used the term to describe superficial economic or political measures which aim to save the day rather than ensure
Suppose US President Joe Biden had invited President Tayyip Erdoğan to the Democracy Summit to be convened by video conference on December 9-10. Can you picture the propaganda that the Presidency of Turkey would carry out? I don’t grant this summit of that much importance. I regard it as a façade of global hypocrisy. But
Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) elected Erinç Sağkan as its new president in December 5 elections. He was running against Metin Feyzioğlu who had been elected as the head of the top legal association while he was against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and became a strong supporter of him along the way. Sağkan received
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu launched his party’s election campaign in Southern Province of Mersin on December 4; way earlier than its scheduled date on June 18, 2023 because the opposition forces pushed for an early election due to the current economic state of Turkey. As his opposition “Nation Alliance” partner
Turkey is now experiencing a coalition government in a one-party rule under an administrative system which was constituted over complaints about vulnerable coalition governments of the 1970s and 1990s. President Tayyip Erdoğan propagated the most crucial reason for establishing the Presidential Government System in 2017 as that Turkey will leave the coalitions behind. Still, the