Turkish Domestic Politics: Analysis and forecast on all relevant developments and insight about Turkish politics with its repercussions in its neighboring countries
For the past decade whenever I heard a Western friend expressing sadness on Turkey’s slide to autocracy and wishing me “good luck,” my response was usually, “Good luck to you too. Things do not look good either in your part of the world.”This was not an irritation against something touching on a nationalist nerve. It
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu appeared last week on Global TV, with host Buket Aydın, who had ironically laughed during an interview on Kanal D, another private broadcaster, in 2019 when the main opposition leader claimed that his party would win the mayor seats in major big cities. The CHP actually won the
If the Directorate of Communications of the Turkish Presidency had remained the sole source of the April 9 phone call between President Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, then we would have been contented with a two-sentence statement. The Turkish Presidency announced that the two leaders contacted, adding that they talked about “issues that
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has triggered Ankara’s anger for using the word “dictator” while speaking of Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoğanCommenting on the “sofa crisis”, which emerged when the European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen was left without a chair, during her visit to Ankara with fellow European Council President Charles Michel, the
As the former Fed chair Ben Bernanke once put it, “Monetary policy is 98 percent talk and only 2 percent action.” What Bernanke highlights with that quote is the capability of a credible central banker in steering the markets in the desired direction, by communicating the central bank’s end goals with the markets. How does
France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy has partially blocked Turkey’s accession negotiations in mid-2000’s arguing Turkey had no place within the European Union (EU). In a recent televised interview on March 24, Sarkozy said he objected to Turkey’s membership, as the country with a more than 80 million population would have divided Europe from within. “Who
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed 104 retired admirals’ a joint statement against a recent debate on Turkey’s retreat from the Montreux Convention that regulates sovereignty rights of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, saying that some of the signatories are members of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). “You will see it soon on
A joint statement of 126 retired ambassadors, a previously published text that opposed the possibility of annulment of the 1936 Montreux Convention on the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, popped up in Turkey’s agenda. Then came the joint declaration of 103 retired admirals. The government did not respond strongly to the statement of the retired ambassadors.
Meral Akşener, the chair of Turkey’s İYİ (Good) Party, refuted today claims over attempts to replace the current Nation Alliance with the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). Parliament spokesperson Mustafa Şentop is engaged in a duel with the CHP over repeating a vote in parliament.And in Turkey’s region, Russia-Ukraine tensions escalated once again. The
Unfortunately, it’s not only the COVID19 pandemic that hit Turkey with its third wave as President Tayyip Erdoğan admitted in his March 29 statement. According to Erdoğan’s statement, now 58 out of 81 Turkish provinces where 80 percent of the population live are at the “very high risk” level. Despite telling people to obey the