Türkiye condemned Sweden over the burning of a copy of the Quran, the holy Book of Muslims in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on January 21, further straining ties between the two countries as Sweden seeks Turkish approval to be a member of the defense alliance NATO. A Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said
Among the contradictions Turkey faces ahead of the crucial 2023 elections is the gap between political activity that is in compliance with the Constitution and “realpolitik,” the German term for “politics in accordance with circumstances, not principles.” This is most evident in the question of whether President and ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) leader
One of the most prominent questions in Turkish public debates about the upcoming 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey is undoubtedly who will be the presidential candidates. Even though President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has not yet announced his candidacy, his name is almost certain for his People’s Alliance. When it comes to the opposition,
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine to support peace and negotiation efforts, in a written statement by the Turkish Presidential Office on January 5. The statement was issued following a telephone conversation between Erdoğan and Putin. Türkiye has been in contact both with Putin and Ukrainian
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan may dissolve the parliament and lead the country to early elections in order to gain an electoral advantage. When you form the sentence like “the president may dissolve the parliament,” it sounds different than “if the parliament does not decide for early elections, the president may decide to bring it forward.”
“Imamoğlu is a big bite, he sticks in your throat. We would choke you, we will choke you” This is how main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu called out Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, who said that he could dismiss Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu from his position once the appeals courts would
The İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was sentenced to 2 years 7 months in prison over false insult charges, and he was barred from engaging political activities in a clearly political case on December 14. As I say it was political, the aim was not only to remove İmamoğlu from politics or eliminate a strong
An earthquake in Türkiye hit the western city of Düzce (170 km northwest of Ankara) at 04.08 (01.08 GMT) on November 23. 50 people injured, no loss of life was reported. Kandilli Observatory in İstanbul reported that the magnitude of the earthquake was measured as 6 on the Richter scale with a depth of 2
The six Turkish opposition parties that have formed an alliance against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Tayyip Erdoğan for the upcoming elections in a bid to “restore the parliamentary regime” have been regularly meeting for the last six months. The six parties’ leaders held their last meeting on November 14, as