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
Since the May 2023 election defeat, Türkiye’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has grappled with internal conflicts that have taken a toll on the party. However, in addition to this, an unprecedented situation has emerged in Turkish politics: the CHP, not President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), appears to
Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) leader Özgür Özel is set to meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Germany. The CHP Leader will travel to Berlin Germany on December 8-10, upon an invitation of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) to attend the party’s congress. On the sidelines of the congress,
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan continues his series of renouncing his actions and rules. Let us list the first ones that come to mind. The supremacy of ECHR rulings according to Article 90 of the Constitution, has come up for discussion again with the recent judicial crisis. Exiting the İstanbul Convention against violence against women. The
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) changed its leader at a highly contested November 4 congress, and delegates elected young Parliamentary Group Chair Özgür Özel to replace Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who refused to resign despite his failure in the presidential and parliamentary elections that took place in May. The 49-year-old pharmacist challenged the 13-year-old Kılıçdaroğlu-chairmanship
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