Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
I congratulate April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day “against all odds.”I say odds because President Tayyip Erdoğan did not use the surname of Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the first president of the country, in his message celebrating the “biggest day of the nation.” (Atatürk translates as “Father of Turks). I do
The last strike that led President Tayyip Erdoğan to fire Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan with a late-night decree in the early hours of April 21 should be her acceptance of selling disinfection goods to the ministry by her husband’s company on the grounds of “below market price.” Pekcan was not a prominent minister in the
The lawyers of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş held an online press conference on April 18 over the “Kobani incidents case” that will start to be heard in Ankara on April 26. In the case to be held in Ankara’s 22nd High Criminal Court, 108 defendants will be tried together with Demirtaş
A scandal concerning human trafficking to Germany with “grey passports” normally provided for short-term duties abroad on demand by authorities -including municipalities- broadens with new cases. A prosecutor from Germany’s Hannover has launched a probe into one person, as parliaments of Lower Saxony and Bavaria also discussing the issue.Last week it was reported in the
As the debate over some $128 billion spent from the reserves last year heats up, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said he was “not content with” a recent statement by Central Bank Gov. Şahap Kavcıoğlu.“The Central Bank should have made this statement long ago. No statement has been made on this
The Ankara contacts of the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on April 15 ended in a scandalous way. When Dendias brought up heavy accusations against Turkey during a joint press conference, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu clapped back and we witnessed a duel of words live. Watching the video of this press conference would help
The debate that was launched after 104 retired admirals made a statement for the stay of the 1936 Montereux Convention on sovereign rights of the straits, has faded with the release of 10 detained former military men. Had Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning to President Tayyip Erdoğan “not to violate Montreux” any part in this?
The protocol accident European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen experienced and the statements released afterwards once again revealed the mood that prevailed in EU-Turkey relations. Instead of working to realize the enormous potential of unity and cooperation between these two parties, to strengthen the liberal democracy front in the world by becoming one of
Ankara was happy with a good meeting with Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibeh but the bad news came from Russia. The first thing that Libya would remind Turkish citizens nowadays might be President Tayyip Erdoğan’s 150,000 doses of vaccine to the North African country at a time when the daily new Covid-19 cases
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced a new round of measures against the Covid-19 pandemic, declaring a “partial lockdown.”The president said the measures were for the first two weeks of Ramadan, the holy month that started today, and the situation would be re-evaluated.The measures include the following: The weekend curfew will continue over the weekend.