Right-wing terrorism has swiftly emerged as the rapidest growing and, in some cases, the most prominent domestic security menace, as underscored by the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee—not to mention the far right’s harmful everyday rhetoric towards migrants and people of color.
The Shangri-La Security Dialogue serves as a platform for cooperation on regional security challenges, such as geopolitical tensions, military modernization, maritime disputes, terrorism, and other emerging threats.
If there is one thing that Turkish society as a whole would not accept, it is an overt or covert coalition with the HDP, the political wing of the PKK terrorist organization, as Erdoğan's discourse reveals on every occasion.
Similarly, Danish parliamentarian Sondergaard has proved himself a biased person against Turkey with his unequivocal support for the PKK terrorist organisation as evidenced in various news articles and statements.
At this point, the decisiveness of the AK Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the two prominent components of the People's Alliance, in the fight against terrorism and their independent foreign policy are the two most important factors that pushed Turkish voters to vote for them.
It assessed Erdoğan's emphasis on security policies, the defense industry, and other issues that ignite national sensitivities, alongside the accusation aimed at the opposition for failing to put a distance between itself and terror-associated actors as the main factors that kept votes within the People’s Alliance (with votes going to the MHP and YRP) rather than the opposition—even if voters were dissatisfied with Erdoğan.
To address this issue of ‘legitimacy’, Saied sought to discredit the legitimacy of parliament by dragging political opponents before the courts on charges of fraud, money laundering, and terrorism, in the hope of securing guilty verdicts by which he could then declare that the elected parliament was illegitimate.
While the fight of the People's Alliance against the PKK and FETO terrorism is established, the HDP line imposes its radical demands on the Nation Alliance.
The process started with the violent Gezi Park protests and continued with the truck conspiracy targeting Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, the December 17-25, 2013 judiciary coup attempt by members of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) who were embedded in the judiciary, the October 6-7, 2014 incidents, the trench and pit terrorism that ended the Peace Process, and, finally, the July 15, 2016 failed military coup attempt by FETO.
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However, superstates now differ from traditional empires in the responsibilities that they bear, and most importantly in the obligation to improve life for ordinary citizens.
Moreover, an adjunct development is the PKK/KCK terrorist organization’s all-out commitment to the election process: a terrorist organization, which by its very nature should be kept away from any legitimate political process, has begun to conduct a political campaign.
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Syrians, who are referred to as “refugees” in this article stemming from the widespread use of the term in Turkey and who are under “temporary protection” due to their legal status, are the litmus test of the Nation Alliance's democratic values, its adherence to international legal norms, and its ambiguous approach and policies towards terrorist organizations in Syria.
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