The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia that began three weeks ago has ended the 25-year-old status quo in Karabakh. Armenia occupied more than 11,000 square kilometers of Azerbaijani territory at the time of a ceasefire signed in 1994. Roughly 4,000 square kilometers of this is the Nagorno-Karabakh region where Armenians make up 75{4a62a0b61d095f9fa64ff0aeb2e5f07472fcd403e64dbe9b2a0b309ae33c1dfd} of the

Prime Minister Ersin Tatar won the presidential election held in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on October 18, gaining 51.7 percent of the votes in the second round. Mustafa Akıncı, who was the president since 2015, declared that he left politics after losing the race with 48.3 percent. Tatar received the most important

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,

Turkey’s official statistics office, TÜİK, revealed Oct. 12 the unemployment rate for July at 13.4 percent, unchanged from the same period a year earlier. TÜİK also said employment in the country fell by nearly 1.3 million. Duvar English discussed the methodology of TÜİK, which disregards the citizens who have lost hope for finding a job.

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

Turkish Cyprus has partly reopened Varosha (Maraş), the resort town that was shut down after the separation of the Turkish and Greek sides of the island in 1974. A group of people entered the area, an issue of debate in the now-stalled reunification talks, through a checkpoint on Oct. 8. The move, which came only