Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Is Set to Lose Turkey’s Presidential Election
The Nation Alliance’s far-fetched election campaign is most likely to fail, and the latest nationalist turn shows yet another political…
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Haluk Bayraktar Criticizes Kılıçdaroğlu for Slandering Baykar
Bayraktar: “Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu … Not only you, but also those who have voiced the slander and defamation we have been…
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Turkey’s May 14 Elections Reveal a New Nationalist Turn
State-oriented and unifying nationalism of the People’s Alliance was the victor in the May 14 elections and under Turkey’s presidential…
Turkey’s May 14 Elections Were Free and Fair, Despite Biased Comments By Some International Observers
There is the point about Turkey’s refusal to accept Kadir Kasırga and Soren Sondergaard as election observers. Kasırga has been…
Turkey’s Opposition Supporters Insult Earthquake Victims After May 14 Elections
Supporters of Turkey’s opposition parties shared hateful remarks on social media, insulting earthquake victims who voted for President Erdoğan.
New Turkish Citizens: Who Do They Vote For and Why?
Perhaps it is time for the Turkish opposition to adopt a friendlier discourse towards people who have acquired Turkish citizenship,…
With Oğan’s Endorsement, Erdoğan Scores One Last Goal against Kılıçdaroğlu
Sinan Oğan’s siding with President Erdoğan was the most logical choice for him since Erdoğan is most likely to lead…
Erdoğan Is Undefeatable. But Why?
Erdoğan has delivered more services in the last 21 years than the Turkish Kemalist establishment has on the previous 80…
Erdoğan Once Again: Turkish People Choose Stability and National Security
Turkey’s May 14 elections revealed that a nationalist deep wave was influential and voters prioritized national security issues.
Why Did Polls Fail in Turkey’s May 14 Elections? Polling Agencies Explain
The inaccuracy of opinion polls shocked Turkish voters, as most polling agencies anticipated a loss for Erdoğan and a win…
Middle Eastern Media’s Take on the May 14 Elections in Turkey
Here is a review of what the most renowned media outlets in the Middle East wrote about the May 14…
An Overview of Turkey’s Election Security Record
The election mechanism in Turkey delivers healthy results regardless of who is in power. It is transparent and open to…
How Europe Approaches Turkey’s Elections and How It Actually Should
Some European analysts suggest that if Erdoğan is reelected, Turkey-EU relations could regain a positive momentum through a gradual progress…
Turkey’s Critical Elections at a Historic Crossroads
Either Turkey will maintain its strategic autonomy and assertive foreign policy or it will return to an obsolete Cold War…
Why Muharrem Ince Is a Headache For Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
The CHP elite, with their media power, often threaten Muharrem Ince and accuse anyone who does not support Kılıçdaroğlu of…
Is Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Turkey’s Zelig?
Contrary to Wood Allen’s famous mockumentary character Zelig, Kılıçdaroğlu’s attitude changes, deep zigzags, and rhetoric of reconciliation are not for…
Erdogan’s Secret: How the AK Party Could Gather Millions Behind after Two Decades
Most Turkish voters believe that Erdogan and the AK Party manage the change well, meet society’s demands, and promptly respond…
The Turkish Opposition’s Litmus Test: Syrian Refugees
Swinging between populism and welfare nationalism, Turkey’s opposition parties fail to present a unified vision regarding the Syrian refugees in…
Why Does the Turkish Left Adore the PKK?
The Turkish left-PKK alliance had been “red” to this day. Now, it is being rebranded as green and the May…
The Aftermath of Turkey’s Local Elections: Who Lost, Who Won?
Since there is a minor difference between the votes of AK Party and CHP candidates in Istanbul, the AK Party…
Turkey’s Kurds Choose the AK Party over HDP Separatism
The AK Party increased its votes in the eastern region, which shows that stiff counterterrorism measures against the PKK have…
Evaluating Turkey’s Upcoming Elections: Future Scenarios
While parties have accelerated their preparations for the upcoming local elections in Turkey, their candidates and strategies are still unclear.
What does Turkey’s Map of Political Alliances Look Like for the Upcoming Local Elections?
What makes the upcoming local elections more important than a simple vote to determine local administrators is the fact that…
Will HDP Choose Democratic Politics and Stand Against the PKK?
With its 67 deputies, the HDP has another chance to choose democratic means over violence and polarization ahead of the…
How intra-Kurdish Differences Prevail in Eastern Turkey
A final finding of the June 24 elections in Turkey is that neither Turkey’s eastern votes nor its Kurdish votes…
A Uni-Multipolar Moment in Turkish Politics
The Turkish political system is not unipolar, in which a single party acts unilaterally, but has a dominant power whose…
Is Nationalism on the Rise in Turkey?
Parties that adopted traditional nationalist discourse lost the elections. One of the biggest losers of the elections was the CHP…
The Turkish Diaspora’s Voting Preference in the 24 June Elections
Turkey’s June 24 election results are considered as a chance by the Turkish diaspora to initiate new and stable bilateral…
“They Would Have Crucified Me”
The trauma experienced by the CHP electorate since the election day is surely in the realm of psychiatry. However, an…
Will Turkey Achieve Social Cohesion after the June 24 Elections?
The post-June 24 elections era in Turkey will not nurture the character of a society of rivals. If anything, it…
Muharrem Ince vs. Kemal Kilicdaroglu: Who’ll Win This Time?
Despite all the similarities, there is a significant difference between the latest mobilization of the opposition movement and the previous…
What to Make of the June 24 Elections in Eastern Turkey
In the eastern cities of Turkey, where the ethnic Kurdish population is in significant numbers, the competition took place between…
Turkey’s Post-election Foreign Policy Agenda
The election results brought more space for maneuver for President Erdogan in domestic politics, but the foreign policy challenges are…
Turkey’s Election and Erdogan’s Middle East Policy
Turkey is likely to become a more influential actor in the politics of the Middle East. It is therefore vital…
Taking Stock of Turkey’s Historic Elections
The June 24 elections were the first general elections that were held in the aftermath of the failed military coup…
What do the 24 June Election Results Tell Us?
It would not be wrong to state that the main objective of the opposition parties, which was to block Erdogan…
The Road Ahead After the June 24 Elections
Having handled serious domestic and foreign policy crises over the years, including party closure cases and a failed coup attempt,…
The Victory of Turkish Democracy
The turnout in the elections was higher than 85 percent, which proves the health of Turkish democracy compared to other…
Ditches Against Peace, Terror Against Politics
During the ditch terror that the PKK inflicted, half of the population in Sırnak’s Cizre and Silopi districts, Diyarbakir’s Sur…
Projections for Sunday’s Elections in Turkey
Many would bet for a victory for Erdogan but with a divided parliament, which will make politics quite hot for…
Post-Nation State in the Middle East and the Turkish Model
The Turkish model, offered by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) after 2002, presents a political community of Muslims…
Demirtas’s Armed Heroes in his Speech for Peace
Here is my call for Demirtas. Next time you want to make it clear that you should not be in…
Towards the Final Phase of Turkey’s 24 June Elections
It’s striking that Ince makes use of populism by not explaining several promises in depth. For instance, Ince declares that…
The June 24 Elections: Turkey’s Search for Stability
The liberal international order has been challenged by the rise of China, the resurgence of Russia in the Middle East…
Do Election Surveys Reflect Voter Preferences in Turkey?
Biases arising from research design should be taken into consideration by Turkish survey companies in order to gather more reliable…
Restructuring Macroeconomic Governance in the Presidential System
Turkey is heading for a systemic transformation towards the “Presidential Government System” under such difficult global conditions. But it is…
The Turkish Diaspora and the 24 June Elections
Loads of rented meeting and conference rooms are getting cancelled in order to prevent programs in favor of, for instance,…
How are Turkey’s Political Parties Pursuing their Election Campaigns?
According to YSK rules, pre-election restrictions will be implemented by June 14 and parties will have to re-organize their campaign…
A Roust May Hit the Opposition
A roust may hit the opposition parties, especially after the elections. The main reason for this will be the lack…
Politicization of Finance Against Turkey
Ahead of the snap election in June 2018, Turkey is under a severe financial attack. It is quite apparent that…
What Does HUDA-PAR’s Support for the AK Party Mean?
Huda-Par has signaled to the conservative Kurdish voters that Erdogan is still the closest candidate to them. How this message…
Three Scenarios for the post-June 24 Elections
On June 24, the people will rather decide whether the country should revert the old oligarchic regime in which the…
Turkey’s Opposition Falling Into the Trap of Populism
As a reaction, equilibrium or a kind of reparation with respect to the CHP’s left-nationalist voters, who are somewhat angered…
Revealing the AK Party’s Candidate List and Election Manifesto
It should be stated that the manifesto is the most comprehensive and eye-catching document compared to previous election manifestos of…
The HDP between Ethnic and Socialist Appeals
The upcoming elections, will show whether the HDP and PKK will be able to appeal to the Turkish socialists without…
Rationality and the AK Party
The AK Party proposes the politics of native-national, which is a project of political unity shaped around a particular conception…
Do Football Players Have no Right to Freedom of Opinion?
While last week many media representatives focused on the alleged doubtfulness of Ozil’s and Gundogan’s Germanness, no one in Germany…
Turkey’s Snap Elections: Why During the State of Emergency?
In the Ottoman Code of Civil Law, there is a nice rule: “Bad examples do not serve as models.” I…
How Turkey’s Political Parties select their MP Candidates
While some parties followed a more transparent method and informed the public at every stage of their parliamentary candidacy process,…
No Unified Front for Turkey’s Ethnic Kurdish Parties
The goals of small Kurdish parties in creating a Kurdistan free from the Turkish state’s jurisdiction is neither realistic nor…
What Does Erdogan’s Leadership Mean for Turkish Politics?
Turkey will reach the moment of political normalcy and Erdogan will then retreat to a less prominent position. Under current…
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…
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…
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…
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…
First Elections for Turkey’s New System of Governance
To get a clear notion of what’s happening in Turkey, the following main points can be taken into consideration: First,…
What does the Snap Election Mean for the Turkish Economy?
The fact that there are only two months before the elections means that the government cannot resort to populist policies…
What are Strategies of the Political Opposition in Snap Elections?
Overall, it should be emphasized that the political opposition in Turkey still suffer to decide on their strategy for the…
Who is Afraid of Early Elections?
The CHP chairman Kilicdaroglu does not seem to know yet if he will run himself as a candidate or nominate the names…
Is Erdogan the Condorcet Winner in Turkey?
Erdogan knows that he will win in any pairwise election and that is the reason why he presents the elections…
Why Does the Opposition in Turkey Fail to Win Elections?
The options before the opposition comes to be either to transform the secular-nationalist identity of its constituent in order to…
What Does the Snap Election Mean for Turkish Foreign Policy?
The strategic reasons behind the early election decision are multidimensional and it may influence current Turkish foreign and security policies.…
