Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on February 2, referred the case of imprisoned philanthropist and civil rights activist Osman Kavala to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It is the next step in “infringement proceedings” that may result in Turkey’s suspension from the Council of Europe, of which it is
I want to start with a sentence attributed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”. This could not be more applicable to recent developments in global politics. Turkey’s recent rapprochement of Israel is a good example that fits this description. The Government of Turkey seems
Yesterday, on February 1, Turkey’s social media users, especially Whatsapp users, were busy sharing a text and circulating it around. I must have received that text at least from fifty different sources. At first sight, there were many signs that it could be fake, but it seemed that its target audience was the opposition, and
What I mean by the confessions is not limited to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent u-turn about the electricity price hikes, in which he stated that the threshold for the low consumption was miscalculated because of the request of the electricity companies. At the beginning of 2022, the government announced further gradual price adjustments for
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has recently been actively constructing its political strategy on various topics, from appealing to Kurdish voters to bureaucracy. But the most recent developments necessitated us to add new propaganda and counter-propaganda tactics to the titles of CHP’s political strategy activities. The latest example was Kılıçdaroğlu’s Twitter broadcast on
I try to interpret current political affairs over photographs or video footage from time to time. It provides a better angle to analyze developments with a more objective perspective than written statements or statistics. It is also the case for the photograph taken at the handover ceremony at Turkey’s Ministry of Justice on January 29.
President Tayyip Erdoğan replaced Minister of Justice and Turkish Statistical Institute head with a presidential decree, as further scrutiny brought upon media to “protect the national and moral values.” Bekir Bozdağ, who had served in critical roles under ruling Justice and Development Party governments, was appointed as the new minister in place of Abdulhamit Gül,
I had a hard time writing the title of this post. For example, the title could have been “Erdoğan took a step back, Sezen Aksu won”. Or a title like “Has the second İmralı process started with Öcalan?” would also be appropriate for what President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on the NTV-Star joint broadcast on
One of the murder suspect of the assasination of academic Necip Hablemitoğlu twenty years ago, who was on alleged to have links with the Gülenist network has been brought to Turkey from Ukraine with an intelligence operation, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a televized interview on Jan. 26. “MIT (National Intelligence Organization) has been
The interregnum in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), which began with the 2020 presidential election and continued for more than a year, was finally left behind by the January 23rd elections. The Turkish Cypriot elections on January 23rd elections produced results that allowed varioıus assessments to be made in many respects. Ruling UBP;