Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
The United States has asked Turkey to take over peace and stability operations at the Hamid Karzai Airport in the capital of Afghanistan. The request was personally conveyed to President Erdogan by President Biden during their encounter at the recent NATO summit. And, during the post-summit press conference, Erdoğan confirmed that he replied positively to this
Fugitive mob leader Sedat Peker has accused on social media Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu of using the youth branch of the ruling party to distribute weapons to civilians in the wake of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. Soylu, the labor minister at the time of the coup, was later appointed as the interior minister,
A report by SETA Foundation, a Turkish NGO close to the government, might be behind the U.S. accusation on Turkey about “child soldiers.”In its July 1 human smuggling report titled “Trafficking in Persons,” the U.S. State Department counted Turkey among the countries that support the recruitment and use of “child soldiers.”According to the claim, Turkey,
“A Sultan in Autumn” is the title of a newly released book in the U.S. “Erdoğan Faces Turkey’s Uncontainable Forces” reads the subheading. Soner Çağaptay, the author, is a historian, researcher, and has been managing the Turkey program of The Washington Institute, a rooted and leading think tank in the U.S. In his book, Çağaptay
The 21st Sea Breeze exercise of NATO in the Black Sea began on June 28. The most comprehensive of Sea Breeze ever will end on July 23. Ukraine, a non-NATO member, hosts the exercise participated by NATO countries including Turkey, disturbing Russia, which invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014. With the arrival of
Nature does not accept emptiness. Those who are looking for an alternative because of America’s mistakes may have started finding an answer in Russia or China. Like hunters, they are also baiting well. The secretary of the Russian Federation’s Security Council since 2008, Nikolai Patrushev would have you believe that Russia is the answer to
Poses in the pool of a luxury hotel… Photographs showing men with cocktail glasses in hand at the sunset… Poses while getting into luxury cars or holding automatic weapons… Stories on Instagram highlighting expensive watches… Luxurious close-fitting suits, skinny ankle-length pants, and so on… Blended with all of these, poses with senior politicians… These are
Turkish Constitutional Court (AYM) top judge Zühtü Arslan has raised strong criticism about the judiciary at a time when the mafia-politics relations are high in the agenda.“If the courts cannot address the search for justice, non-legal searches come into play,” the judge said at a symposium on “The Right to Respect for Private Life in
How could someone who rules a country think of threatening his own people with further debts to foreign banks and the opposition to suffer from those debts if they come to power for the sake of making his stay in power continuous?He wouldn’t, or would he? President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who holds all the executive