Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
Marking the sixth month since the human rights defenders were sentenced to 18 years in prison for the case brought against the 2013 Gezi Park protests, we face another judicial scandal. Let me remind you first that the case against the Gezi Protests, which was a nationwide civil protest that happened in May-June 2013, was
After Russia’s war in Ukraine, Sweden and Finland wanted to join NATO. But since in the Western military alliance the decisions are taken unanimously, the approval awaits Türkiye’s consent, which depends on Ankara’s demands for a joint struggle against terrorism. In the last week, attempts to persuade Türkiye have increased visibly. The new Swedish Prime
An Ankara Court ruled to arrest Turkish Medical Association President Şebnem Korur Fincancı for “dispersing terrorist propaganda” on October 27, after Dr. Fincancı conveyed her opinion about alleged chemical weapons usage of Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) on a TV show. TTB President and Forensic Pathologist Dr. Fincancı was taken into custody on October 26 from
Some observations in the corridors of the parliament, and a small interview with the deputies are sufficient to say that both the opposition and ruling side are in pursuit of a way in pain and new developments are on the corner. You see a deputy score their own goal every minute. Two of these scores
John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil and served as its president for 29 years. He was one of the richest businessmen of all time. He lived for almost a century until the age of 98. Rockefeller was a highly engaged reader of the New York Times. However, the bad news in the newspaper demoralized him,
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stirred up a heated debate after he advised a new AKP member’s wife “to have more children as a career” at his ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) parliamentary group meeting on October 19. “The career of this business is to have children. The child is very important. Look, the
The issue of Syrian refugees returning to their home country from Türkiye has become the second hot electoral topic after the economic crisis. The public discussion came to a point that recent polls indicate Ümit Özdağ’s Victory Party, the real promise of which is to send the Syrians to Syria immediately, gaining 3 percent of
“U.S. is impartial towards Greece and Türkiye,” US Ambassador to Ankara Jeffry L. Flake stated, following the tension between Greece and Türkiye escalated after 92 refugees found stripped at the border. “I have been asked recently if there has been a shift in U.S. security posture in the Aegean. The answer is no,” Flake said
Some 41 miners died in the coal mine explosion on October 14 in the Amasra District of Northern Türkiye, while six miners are fighting for their lives in the intensive care unit with serious injuries. Energy Minister Fatih Dönmez announced on October 16 that the mine will resume its production “after the search and rescue
The new draft bill that stipulates changes in the Press Law, Criminal Code and Internet law, which the journalists called the “censorship law” and the ruling party “the law of disinformation”, was accepted by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) votes on the night of 13 October, after highly