Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group’s deputy chair Mahir Ünal announced his resignation from his position in the party on October 31, after his comments against early republican reforms stirred debate. In fact, Ünal’s seat began to shake when AKP’s “People’s Alliance” partner Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli made a harsher
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Ankara is hopeful that the Black Sea Initiative for grain export will be resumed while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to hold bilateral talks with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts on the issue on November 1. “We get many questions about whether the grain corridor will continue after Russia’s
The developments in the last five days have shown that Türkiye is facing the cold reality of a “Russian winter”. The Russian winter affects every country and region differently. In Europe, the Russian winter has an impact because of natural gas shortages and the domestic policy problems that it will bring. The Russian winter has
European Commission’s 2022 Turkey observation report entered Turkey’s agenda and exited almost at the same time it was published, mainly because it carves the contentious issues in the EU’s favour and the righteous determinations and criticism of the report get to be officially ignored. While the penultimate statement in the report that “Turkey is a
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