President Tayyip Erdoğan and his election partner MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) leader Devlet Bahçeli reiterate that there will be no early elections. The election is expected to take place in June 2023. But DEVA Party leader Ali Babacan insists on the claim that Erdoğan will hold early elections. He even narrowed down his prediction from

Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court rejected on Oct. 13 the Constitutional Court’s decision that journalist and politician Enis Berberoğlu should be retried in a case that resulted in the dropping of his post as a lawmaker. Doing so, the court has declared that it will not obey the Constitutional Court but the Court of Cassation,

Turkish Cypriots are to go to the polls for the Presidential election on Sunday, October 11th. The election was originally scheduled to be held six months ago but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. If no candidates will receive 50 percent of the votes in the first round, the second round will be held

Upon its foundation in 2001, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) brought a new breath to politics. With that wave of hope, it took power alone, taking 34 percent of the votes in 2002. The following years saw an e-memorandum, a closure case against the party, and a coup attempt. Next month, it will be

Only a few hours President Tayyip Erdoğan delivers his speech for the opening of the legislative year of parliament on Oct. 1, the European Union (EU) leaders will start a meeting with Turkey on their agenda. Therefore, EU leaders will talk on Turkey with Erdoğan’s fresh messages in addition to the letters they received from

The recent clashes that started with artillery fire on an Azerbaijani village close to the Nagorno-Karabakh region occupied by Armenia on Sept. 27 may turn into an opportunity that Baku has been waiting for years. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan seems to have made the wrong move with the wrong timing. If Russia, the guard

I cannot explain the recent detention of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members and representatives in terms of law, so let’s try to look into it in terms of political balances and meaning. Why now, and or God’s sake, what’s going on?First, the political atmosphere in which such a decision was made matters. The Greece/Eastern

Let’s start with checks and balances. First, I would like to present a piece for taste from my soon-to-be-published “The Book of Coups for the Curious”, sparing some names of the characters for the book. Then, we can start talking about a judge, a prosecutor, and a wedding ceremony.It was the darkest days of the

High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles delivered a speech concerning Turkey in the European Parliament on Sept. 15. In the core part of his speech, he named Turkey among the countries that want to enliven the “old empire,” adding that this is a new situation confronting the EU.New