Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) submitted a new draft law to the parliament, which stipulates a further punishment to mention corporations in public that can be regarded as “defamation.” That stirred a debate since Turkey’s public has long been calling a number of construction moguls involved in mega
One of two tables is being set up in Istanbul Turkey for the 6 opposition party leaders get together to overthrow the ruling alliance through elections. Their main agenda is to find a strategy as a precaution against ruling party’s recent change of the election law to protect the number of ruling seats in the
The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey’s (DİSK) 16th General Assembly convened in 2020 with a claim to build “Labor’s Turkey and Labor’s World.” Some critics often labelled that goal as “ambitious” and “unrealistic”. However, when we look at 2022’s Turkey and World that witnessed Ukraine Crisis just after Covid 19 pandemic, I can
A few hours after the end of the March 24 Extraordinary NATO summit of world leaders to stop Russia its invasion of Ukraine, I was at a Presidential Symphony Orchestra’s Concert Hall in Ankara for a charity concert. Well known pianist Alexander Romanovsky, who is Russian from his father’s side and Ukrainian from his mother’s
On March 22, two “breaking” news were published on Turkey’s news outlets indicating how heated the domestic politics and diplomatic policy actions of Ankara amid Ukraine-Russia crisis. The first was from Moscow. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that if President Vladimir Putin sees an “existential threat” to Russia, the president may resort to “use nuclear
For some reason, the news that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s luxury yacht “My Solaris” had anchored in Bodrum on March 21 did not cause great surprise in Turkey. It was rumored that Abramovich, who has Russian, Lithuanian and Israeli passports, whose assets in England were frozen after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has been shuttling between
The Istanbul court ruled for the continuation of the imprisonment of civil rights activists Osman Kavala, who has been in prison for more than 4 years without conviction, in Gezi Park Trial where 17 defendants tried for attempting or aiding to overthrow the government. In the fourth hearing expected to be the final one, Istanbul
Russia caused a seismic shock throughout the World by invading Ukraine. Nothing will be the same again and the Ukraine crisis will be recorded in history as a milestone in international relations. A new generation cold war we all knew had started before the Russian attack on Ukraine, once again dividing East and West, will
The first government official to utter that the Third World War had actually begun was Ukrainian Presidential Spokesman Mihaylo Podolyak. “You sit in cafes in Brussels, Amsterdam, watch Netflix and think that the war will not touch you,” Podolyak was reproaching on March 4, on the 9th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A few
The facilitating policy adopted by Turkey in the Ukraine Crisis may also make the approval of the F-16 modernization demanded from the USA easier. Ankara’s diplomacy to ensure a ceasefire in Ukraine and start the political solution process as soon as possible soon begin to yield results, which may result in mending ties the West