Meral Akşener followed a line similar to that followed in Western democracies, albeit with some delay. First, she declared an extraordinary congress for the İYİ (Good) Party, giving herself a margin of error regarding the defeat of the opposition block in the 2023 elections. In the 2024 -local- elections, she took the failure of
After losing in the May presidential and legislative elections, Türkiye’s opposition is in turmoil both inner-party struggles and within the coalition it created prior to the elections. The six party opposition’s People Alliance’s partner İYİ Party’s first party congress after the elections held in Ankara on 24-25 June. The party’s leader Meral Akşener’s first speech
There has been a remarkable change in the assessments of foreign diplomatic missions in Ankara in the last month, regarding the result of the May 14 elections in Türkiye. Until recently, there was little doubt in the assessments of countries and international organizations that President Tayyip Erdoğan would make a last-ditch push and win the