Erdoğan: Political Commitment at COP31 Can Help Keep Paris Agreement Goals on Track
Erdoğan described COP31 as an implementation-focused summit and welcomed backing for the “35×35 Global Electrification Pledge.”
Turkey
Double Standards and Wishful Thinking as Policy Instruments
The federal government has to be sincere and diminish its obvious and continuous double standards. If a country permanently tries…
Uninvited Guests of the Inhospitable Sea
The EU severely depends on Turkey, as it did regarding the Aegean Sea, in the subjects of the prevention of…
Insights of the AK Party’s Manifesto
The AK Party’s manifesto for the June 24 elections is beyond being an ordinary election manifesto. The manifesto also reveals…
Ince’s Dilemma in his Appeal to the Kurdish Constituency
As Ince continues his appeal to HDP voters, Aksener’s constituency and the secular nationalist CHP constituency will also distance themselves…
Erdogan’s New Way in Turkish Foreign Policy
This time, Erdogan’s way in Turkish foreign policy is a strategy to save the country first and to turn it…
Can the “TAMAM” Campaign End the Opposition’s Underdog Position?
In all these years as the AK Party has pursued society’s demands for ending the domination of the bureaucratic elites…
What can Turkey learn from the South Korean Development Experience?
Over the last few years Turkey has started to give more importance to the manufacturing industry in order to reverse…
The CHP’s Confusion Regarding the Presidential Election
While all major Turkish political parties nominated their de jure or de facto party leader as their presidential candidate, the…
An Alliance of Chaos?
Will they say “We do not have any mutually-agreed program on any subject. We only aim to unseat Erdogan, return…
A Superficial Alliance Between the Opposition Parties?
After the announcement of the alliance, supporters of the Felicity Party criticized the cooperation of their party with the CHP…
The Odds for Erdogan and Demirtas in Turkey’s Presidential Elections
It seems like the Kurdish votes will be split between Erdogan and Demirtas in the first round of the elections.…
Erdogan’s Manifesto and Democracy
The shift to a presidential system may be the most critical step in institutionalizing democratic politics in Turkey. It promises…
Does the Tight Monetary Policy Stance of Central Banks Stand Empirical Scrutiny?
Time is more than ripe for the TCMB to reconsider its monetary policy stance and take into account real factors…
Kemalism is Over, Long Live Opportunism!
Over the course of the past seven years, Kilicdaroglu’s CHP differed from former party leader Deniz Baykal’s CHP in this…
The Opposition’s Failure in Search of a Presidential Candidate
Two important strategies of the political opposition failed in the election process. However, this does not mean that the opposition…
Who Will Turkey’s Kurds Vote For?
The electoral behavior of Turkey’s Kurds with regard to the AK Party and Erdogan vis a vis the HDP shows…
The Weakness of the Turkish Opposition
There are three interrelated weaknesses of the Turkish opposition: the lack of ideological inclusiveness, the lack of leadership, and the…
Why Will Anti-Erdoganism Bring Defeat to the Opposition?
Anti-Erdoganism is far from responding to societal demands and this makes it a poor idea in creating the largest and…
