Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
President Tayyip Erdoğan briefed journalists in Baku on June 17 about his contacts on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussel on June 13-14.He defined the consensus with Greek Prime Minister Kriyakos Mitsotakis,...
Deniz Poyraz, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) employee, was killed in an armed attack on the Kurdish issue-focused party’s İzmir province on June 17. Onur Gencer, who entered the building and fired randomly, was...
During the last decade before the fall of the Soviet Union, I served as a foreign service officer in Moscow. Every western diplomat that negotiated with Soviet counterparts knew their negotiation attitude could be...
For President Tayyip Erdoğan, the most important thing about the June 13-14 NATO summit was his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.The U.S. leader had already responded to Erdoğan’s phone call on April 23...
The long-awaited first meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Joe Biden as two leaders took place on the sidelines of the two-day NATO summit on June 14 in Brussels.The two presidents...
Turkey’s political and economic agenda is locked in a meeting between President Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Joe Biden within the framework of the NATO summit on June 14. This meeting is important but...
Turkey, Diyarbakır-based Dicle Social Research Center (DİTAM), hosted Konda Research Company General Manager Bekir Ağırdır at its online meeting “The Effects of the Pandemic and the Economic Crisis on the Kurdish Issue – Is...
The most likely scenario for the bilateral meeting between President Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Joe Biden on June 14 is becoming clear. So let us look at the circumstances in which this meeting...
We live in a difficult time for democratic norms. Eighty-seven countries worldwide — home to an estimated 68% of the world’s population — are considered either electoral or closed autocracies. By contrast, the number...
Good Party (İYİ Parti) leader Meral Akşener was threatened by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after her visit to Rize last month. “It is a terrible thing to be threatened by the President. I am...
