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The Weakness of the Turkish Opposition

The strategy that the opposition blocks have embraced for the snap election is an important indicator of the weakness of the anti-Erdogan camp, which is composed of the secularist People’s Republican Party (CHP), the nationalist Good Party (IP, also known as Iyi Party), the Islamist Felicity Party (SP), and the Kurdish nationalist Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

Why Will Anti-Erdoganism Bring Defeat to the Opposition?

s Turkey moves towards its first presidential election, which will be held on 24 June, the political parties including the secularist People’s Republican Party (CHP), the nationalist Good Party (Iyi Party), the Islamist Felicity Party (SP), and the Kurdish nationalist Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have struggled to team up against the alliance between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

Who is Afraid of Early Elections?

The CHP did not consider it risky while making such a claim although the total vote share of the three leading opposition parties, namely the CHP, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), did amount to 47.