Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
The crisis, which started when ten western ambassadors in Ankara collectively demanded the release of the rights activist Osman Kavala and escalated when President Tayyip Erdoğan denounced them as persona non grata, ended with the back steps taken.First, on the afternoon of October 25, the US Embassy declared on its Twitter account that it would
It seems that President Tayyip Erdoğan’s statement on October 23 that he gave instructions to Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to deport 10 western ambassadors from Turkey as persona non grata will have serious consequences.It takes neither diplomacy nor economics genius to forecast this. Even the fact that Erdoğan requested the deportation of the ambassadors of
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on October 23 that he instructed Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to declare ten ambassadors as “persona non grata” and get deported from Turkey. Erdogan said the Ankara Ambassador of the USA, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Canada, and New Zeeland interfered in Turkey’s interior affairs by writing
Greece has always endeavored to bring its bilateral issues with Turkey to the agenda of the EU from day one. The fact that Greece has been successful in its efforts to a great extent, especially recently, should come as no surprise. In any international Organization, if one of its members insists on drafting suggestions on
While all parties involved expect the Turkish Armed Forces to carry out another military operation in Syria, the cost of the deepening crisis in Syria is increasing every single day. With no end in sight, a UN estimate that it would take at least 30 years for per capita income to reach pre-war levels if
At least 36 civilians were killed and 200 people were injured following a suicide attack on a Shiite Mosque during Friday prayers on Oct. 15 in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city and the Taliban’s birthplace. The day before, a high-level Taliban delegation had arrived in Turkey via a commercial Qatar Airways flight and had already spoken
People who are not Iran watchers often get confused when Iranian soldiers are mentioned. In Iran, there are two armies. The first one is the “conventional” one, the Artesh. There is also Sepah Pasdaran, or the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). It was established by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who did not trust the army from the time
At first glance, it seems that the row over bureaucracy started with a Twitter video message by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the Turkish main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). He called on bureaucrats on October 16, with a slightly threatening tone that from October 18, Monday on they should not sign the “illegal requests”
The attention Pandora Papers received since early October demonstrates the rising international sensibility towards corruption. Biden’s speech at the NATO summit in June where he called member states to act against corruption, thereby moving the issue from the realm of law to the realm of politics and international security, had also marked the beginning of
The postures and looks in the photograph taken during President Tayyip Erdoğan’s meeting with the Turkish Central Bank (CBRT) Governor Şahap Kavcıoğlu on the evening of October 13, actually sum up the situation. Following that meeting Erdoğan dismissed three policymakers of the CBRT which was followed by a further depreciation of the Turkish lira; 1