Germany’s Social Democrat Leadership Has Changed But Future Remains Shaky
The SPD decided to continue to support Merkel’s current grand coalition but it is likely that the new leaders will renegotiate the terms of their support.
The SPD decided to continue to support Merkel’s current grand coalition but it is likely that the new leaders will renegotiate the terms of their support.
Over the course of the past seven years, Kilicdaroglu’s CHP differed from former party leader Deniz Baykal’s CHP in this…
President Macron might have convinced Trump to reconsider pulling U.S. troops out of Syria “too soon” but the central disconnect…
Two important strategies of the political opposition failed in the election process. However, this does not mean that the opposition…
The electoral behavior of Turkey’s Kurds with regard to the AK Party and Erdogan vis a vis the HDP shows…
There are three interrelated weaknesses of the Turkish opposition: the lack of ideological inclusiveness, the lack of leadership, and the…
Anti-Erdoganism is far from responding to societal demands and this makes it a poor idea in creating the largest and…
The crisis between the two countries reached its peak in April 2018, when Somalian security forces seized a UAE-owned plane…
To get a clear notion of what’s happening in Turkey, the following main points can be taken into consideration: First,…
The fact that there are only two months before the elections means that the government cannot resort to populist policies…
Overall, it should be emphasized that the political opposition in Turkey still suffer to decide on their strategy for the…
The CHP chairman Kilicdaroglu does not seem to know yet if he will run himself as a candidate or nominate the names…
Erdogan knows that he will win in any pairwise election and that is the reason why he presents the elections…
The options before the opposition comes to be either to transform the secular-nationalist identity of its constituent in order to…
The strategic reasons behind the early election decision are multidimensional and it may influence current Turkish foreign and security policies.…
While Egypt witnessed a guideline example of an undemocratic election process, the Western “democracies” such as the U.S. and the…
Pursuing a low policy interest rate – undervalued exchange rate regime has become much harder in the neoliberal era. However,…
It’s a bit strange that Germany has positioned itself within the circle of militarily powerful Western circles in the form…
Secularism, which turned into the official religion of the state with the 1905 French law on the Separation of the…
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