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

What would President Trump ask from Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan if he were allowed to ask for one thing only? An American official talking to a group of Turks on condition of anonymity recently asked that rhetorical question and continued without waiting for the Turks to answer: it would be to cancel the Russian S-400

Turkish navy launched its biggest ever military exercise on February 27 amid rising tensions in the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. On February 26, during a press conference in the Turkish Navy Command in Gölcük, Northwest Turkey, Rear Admiral Yankı Bağcıoğlu, Chief of Operations of the Turkish Naval Forces spoke about a

        • A test with polls: Mirror, mirror on the wall… As Turkey is heading for the March 31 local elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that he no longer trusted public opinion polls. Before this new line, he has been denouncing opposition parties as collaborators of terrorism. According to Erdoğan, polling companies which used

I wonder how the Turkish “mainstream” media could report the deaths of 21 people under a collapsed building on February 7, if President Tayyip Erdoğan didn’t go and inspect the site and deliver a speech two days later; the authorities had immediately imposed a broadcast ban over the incident. There were a number of such

Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül warned against authoritarian rule and populism during a panel discussion last week saying it will lead to social polarization inside and in foreign policy, as well as to conflicts and wars. Speaking in a panel discussion in Istanbul during the 22nd Eurasian Economy Summit by the Marmara Group on Feb