Until last week, President Tayyip Erdoğan had not been utilising the US-bashing discourse. The foreign policy items such as demand for the F-16 fighter jets, the YPG issue in Syria, and the $100 billion trade volume prevented him from using the anti-US rhetoric that would have cemented his image as a world leader in the
Türkiye’s opposition İYİ Party’s Istanbul branch headquarters was attacked with gunshots in the morning hours of March 31. According to the statement made by the party officials, the attack occurred at around 10:30 a.m. as unknown individuals fired gunshots at İYİ Party’s Zeytinburnu headquarters. Two bullets hit the building’s windows and a chair in the
In line with his previously stated intent, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has used the authority provided by Article 116(3) of the Constitution and declared Sunday the 14th of May 2023 as the date of the centenarian Turkish Republic’s upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. The Supreme Election Council (YSK) has already accepted and declared the presidential
Recent anti-Semitic incidents in Türkiye have outraged the public. The first incident occurred during a high school football game between Ulus Jewish High School and Üsküdar American High School. Ulus Jewish High School is the oldest and only school of the Turkish Jewish Community. The Turkish Jewish Community and Üsküdar American High School both confirmed
First, let us try to explain why Türkiye lost an arbitration case brought by the Iraqi government in 2014, which resulted in Türkiye being ordered to pay 1.4 billion US dollars in compensation. We should add that he International Chamber of Commerce’s International court of Arbitration in Paris also found the Iraqi government guilty of
The general fuss over presidential candidate nominations in Ankara seems to settle down after Kurdish-issue focused People’s Democracy Party (HDP) and its Labor and Freedom Alliance announced that they would not nominate any presidential candidate. While their indirect support to six-party opposition alliance’s candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu stirred yet another debate, the other 11 candidates, who
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader and opposition’s presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu met with Germany’s ruling partner Social Democratic Party (SPD) co-chair Lars Klingbeil and accompanying delegation in the earthquake stricken province of Gaziantep on March 21. The CHP and SPD leaders emphasized on the devastating effects of February 6 earthquakes that hit
It was a few hours after the New Welfare Party (Yeniden Refah Partisi) leader Fatih Erbakan announced that his political-islamist party refused to endorse the ruling People’s Alliance in the elections after meetings with President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials. Erbakan not only refused to support, but also announced his candidacy for
The chain of disasters that started in the 2020s never leaves Turkey. First, the pandemic process experienced around the world greatly affected the economic and social life in the country in 2020 and 2021. Then, in 2022, the impacts of the Russian aggression and occupation of Ukraine were felt by the entire international community of
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed the presidential decree to bring the critical presidential and general elections forward to May 14, while the political parties are closing ranks in search of unlikely alliances, as even the smallest parties may have an impact in the head-to-head race. President Erdoğan, on March 10, officially set the election