Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
As I sat down to write this article around noontime on June 22, Halkbank shares seemed to have started off the week with a 6.5{4a62a0b61d095f9fa64ff0aeb2e5f07472fcd403e64dbe9b2a0b309ae33c1dfd} increase. This increase had even reached 8.5{4a62a0b61d095f9fa64ff0aeb2e5f07472fcd403e64dbe9b2a0b309ae33c1dfd} in the morning, sometime after the opening of the Istanbul Stock Exchange. “It’s a big increase for a bank,” said a friend of
The presidents of bar associations oppose the amendments that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is planning to make to the Attorneyship Act. As a protest, they set off to Ankara on June 19th from the various cities they reside in. The apparent aim of this amendment that AKP insists on making, even though all
It is necessary to remind it, especially to young people. At the time of its foundation in 2001, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) didn’t embody the state. It wasn’t responsible for everything from unemployment to education like it is today. In the beginning, AKP was the fiercest opposition to the ruling government and
At around the same time, the NATO Defense Ministers’ video-meeting has started on June 17 afternoon, a Turkish plane has landed at Tripoli airport in Libya. Semi-official Anadolu Agency soon started to file footage of a high-rank Turkish delegation welcomed by Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj. The delegation was led by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu,
“Let’s suppose you’re Prime Minister again,” I asked, perhaps I should have said President now, “what would your priority be?” The weather outside is overcast, with lighting flashes; a storm is about to start. There were a few days left for the opening of the Party’s headquarters. We hold our meeting in the reception room
Twitter has changed its method and language significantly to rein in Turkey’s pro-government networks, widely known as trolls, six years after the government’s first operation triggered a ban by the Turkish government.Turkey slammed Twitter on June 12 for suspending thousands of accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdoğan as part of a wider crackdown on what
Twitter has shut down some 7,340 accounts in Turkey, discussing that they were “state-linked information operations.” “We’re disclosing new state-linked information operations to our public archive — the only one of its kind in the industry. Originating from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Russia, and Turkey, all associated accounts and content have been removed,”
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan was live on Turkey’s public broadcaster TRT on the night of June 8, 2020. Erdoğan was delighted when the moderator asked her pre-ordered question about his telephone call with Trump a few hours ago. According to Erdoğan, upon hearing Turkey’s coronavirus statistics, Trump had said “wow” in surprise. They then spoke
It was the beginning of March. It looked as though all the world’s celebrities had contracted COVID-19. England’s Prince Charles, Iran’s Parliamentary President Ali Larijani, Hollywood’s Tom Hanks, and Turkey’s millionaire football coach Fatih Terim, aka Emperor, all had it. The list went on. People expressed their sadness. But in the meantime, statements like “this
At the moment, all eyes are on the demonstrations in the USA and the course of the COVID epidemic. But Hong Kong has been hosting similar protests every weekend for months. Moreover, they are struggling against the Chinese administration, which has no regard for human rights. They are fighting against the Chinese police force, face