Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s suggestion to lower the presidential election threshold from 50+1 percent to 40+1 percent and to make it a single round, further clarifies that his easy re-election in 2028 is the main aim of the discourse on a new and civil constitution he started on the 12th of September at the Ulucanlar museum.
Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) leader Özgür Özel is set to meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Germany. The CHP Leader will travel to Berlin Germany on December 8-10, upon an invitation of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) to attend the party’s congress. On the sidelines of the congress,
The son of the Somali leader, Mohammed Hassan Shekh Mohamud, left the country after hitting and killing a motorcycle courier, Yunus Emre Göçer, in traffic in Istanbul. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s son, Mohammed Hassan Shekh Mohamud, after motorcycle courier Yunus Emre Göçer,
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan is in Athens today for talks with Greek Prime Minister Kiryakos Mitsotakis. The High Level Cooperation meeting, which has not been held for seven years, will also take place on this occasion. With steps such as the mutual reduction of military exercises in the Aegean Sea, the world could have a
Ahead of the local elections to be held in March 2024, less than a year after the major presidential and parliamentary elections, Turkish political parties are in search of new strategies to take over the local governments, which will also shape the post-election political landscape of Turkish politics. While opposition seems to be shattered, President
Ankara responded harshly to alleged claims of Israeli domestic intelligence service Shin Bet’s chief Ronen Bar, who said in a record published by Israeli state television KAN that “they are determined to kill Hamas leaders all over the world, including Qatar, Türkiye and Lebanon.” Turkish intelligence officials told Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency that the Israeli
Türkiye-Israel relations are increasingly strained on December 2 after Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement as a response to Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s social media post directly addressing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who reiterated his previous statement that he does not regard Hamas as a terrorist organisation. Spokesperson of Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has already told in his speect to Turkish Grand National Assembly last week that the 2024 will be difficult for Türkiye. To the existing problems in foreign policy, Iran may have been added to the troubles he addressed. On his return from the joint summit of Islamic countries in Riyadh
Dutch politician Geert Wilders, whose party raised as the first in the exit polls of the snap parliamentary elections in Netherlands on November 22, said even he could not believe his victory by saying “I pinched my arm,” adding “no party can ignore us any longer.” Wilders, whose political line has been softened as “far-right”,
Türkiye is surrounded by energy-rich countries and stands as one of the region’s largest energy investors, buyers, consumers, and transit nations. The energy sector involves vast sums of money, impacting vital aspects such as politics, security, trade, technology, intelligence, and finance. Türkiye, particularly dependent on foreign sources for fossil fuels, faced a 91.6 percent increase