Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived Samarkand Uzbekistan on Sep. 15 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization leaders’ summit for the first time, marking a possibility for Turkey to hold a different place in the balance of power in the World within this rapidly changing process. First of ull, it is useful to underline a
Statements from opposition İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener and Kurdish issue-focused Democratic People’s Party’s (HDP) imprisoned former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş on September 13 strengthened the possibility that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s competitor in the critical 2023 presidential elections will be main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. “The decision will be made
In Turkey, the middle class cannot find its political representation in the central politics. Center, center-left and center-right platforms which aspire to represent the priorities of the middle class in the world are rather absent in the Turkish political party system. This has an effect on Turkish politics and as the 2023 elections approach, this
Although both Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and his unofficial coalition partner Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli almost every day say, “There is no early election,” the claims that early elections will be announced this fall are incessant. The allegations became flesh and bone when the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal
President Tayyip Erdoğan, who lectures everyone on politics taken the moral high ground, asked main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu 10 questions in his speech in which he defamed his political opponents with expressions such as “slut” and “rotten” in his ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) parliamentary group meeting. CHP leader