240 results found!

EU-Turkey Accession Negotiations Backsliding?

In the recent years, the common messages addressed to Ankara stated a more and more increasing concern about the democratic deficit of Turkey while on the other side the Turkish discontent had developed further along the fact that no Progress Report had classified FETO, the perpetrators of the coup attempt, as a terrorist group.

Is the Turkish Opposition Really an Alternative?

More specifically, if the AK Party-MHP ruling bloc convinces the electorate that it’s loss of power will impair the fight against terrorism (PKK, FETO and DAESH) and deteriorate the country’s economy, which had recently taken a downturn, it will guarantee the election victory.

Turkey Charts an Independent Foreign Policy

No attacks in Turkey’s major cities have occurred in the past two years, but the effort to uproot Fethullah Gulen’s violent cult (FETO) from state institutions and the military, which is directly related both to improved institutional performance and the more stable security environment, still continues.