A hundred years ago on May 19, 1919, Mustafa Kemal Pasha set foot on the Black Sea port of Samsun as a young general of the defeated Turkish army under the Ottoman Rule with a handful of his brothers in arms. His mission as the commander of the 9th Army as mandated by Sultan Vahdettin

Can Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan find a way to cancel the Istanbul municipal election re-run set to take place on June 23, if he thinks Ekrem İmamoğlu of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) could win again? The answer of the American think tank The Washington Institute’s Turkey program chief Soner Çağaptay is a

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) members to cancel the results of the March 31 municipal election for Istanbul, where the opposition candidate won, in order to “clear the stain” and “vindicate” on themselves, on the eve of a key meeting for the ruling. During a speech on May 4

As soon as the Ankara court released Osman Sarıgün who was under detention, on April 24, for stamping the main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on April 21, supporters of President Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) were seen taking pictures with him, kissing his hand in praise of the attack Spokespersons from Kılıçdaroğlu’s

Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was attacked by an angry nationalist crowd on April 21 as he was attending the funeral of a soldier. Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was attacked in the Çubuk district of Ankara, near the international Esenboğa airport during the funeral ceremony of private Yener

Turkish Finance and Treasury Minister Berat Albayrak said he had an unscheduled visit to the U.S. President Donald Trump on April 15, amid tension between the two allies over a number of issues over Turkey’s decision to purchase Russian made S-400 missiles. Albayrak told to a group of journalists in Washington DC that during the

One of the few things that Turkey was proud of about its democracy used to be the vote count system in the elections. Usually they were accurately be counted and announced a few hours after the polling stations are closed. Not anymore. The March 31 local elections turned into a disaster because of vote counts

Istanbul’s mayor elect Ekrem İmamoğlu who won the March 31 election with a narrow margin warned that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) demands for the recount of the discarded votes could “disgrace” Turkey at a time of “delicate economic and political balances”. Winning the election race on the social democratic main opposition

In Istanbul, the key constituency of Turkish elections on March 31, the opposition candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has announced his victory in a press conference in the early hours of April 1st but still there is no official announcement neither to confirm of to deny that, in one of the biggest blunders of Turkish politics in

President Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey has managed to shift Turkey’s administrative regime with no prime minister is needed to share his power through a referendum in 2017 thanks to the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli. It was Bahçeli who had saved him from losing majority in the Parliament in June 2015 elections and