Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
Portugal went to early elections in a quiet atmosphre on January 30. The Socialist Party which has been ruling the country with a minority government for the last 6 years managed to secure the neccesary majority to form a government on her own. Portugal is a small country in the West of Europe with a
The leaders of the six opposition parties will meet for the first time on February 12 to launch discussions about the 2023 elections. The rumor it is that the headquarters of these parties are paying much more attention to the form of the discussion than what will be discussed. What I mean by the “form”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and First Lady Emine Erdoğan tested positive for Covid-19, as the Minister of Health announced that they have mild symptoms and “their condition is well enough not to hinder them for work.” “Today my wife and I tested positive for Covid-19 which we had taken after mild symptoms. Thank God, we
In the early hours of February 3, US special forces raided a two-story house in Atme village in Idlib, near Syria’s border with Turkey. At least 13 people, including six women and four children, were killed in the raid, which was carried out with intense helicopter fire. In a statement broadcast live from the White
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.