After 17 Years of Rule, How Can the AK Party Maintain Public Support?
After their surprise victory in 2002, the AK Party have maintained power for 17 years building a positive legacy of…
After their surprise victory in 2002, the AK Party have maintained power for 17 years building a positive legacy of…
The AK Party and the MHP maintain their cooperation without any significant problem. Nevertheless, the emergence of new parties founded…
Despite all the possible challenges in the foreign policy for the rest of 2019, the main challenge for the AK…
Only when Turkish democracy has deepened and stabilized, and when economic prosperity has been achieved by a much larger swath…
As journalists who closely follow Turkish politics, we are used to the inner debates and quests for new leaders within…
Whilst Erdoğan and the AK party have not changed in their ideology and overall mission for the country, western powers…
The options before the opposition comes to be either to transform the secular-nationalist identity of its constituent in order to…
Usually accompanied by the use of virulent and exclusionary language towards the rest, polarization of society occurs by splitting it…
The AK Party’s political paradigm is shaped by an amalgam of liberal, conservative and nationalist values. The relative importance and…
Following the momentum of economic and political liberalization in Turkey, and as the realm of politics gained relative autonomy from…
While the AK Party cannot be blamed for reducing democracy to elections alone, it is accepted that the governing party…
In addition to President Erdogan and the US President Trump who are both in agreement that the vote should not…
While the July 15 coup attempt and the immediate aftermath produced a unified synergy in favor of democracy, in the…
FETO, a religious criminal cult and led by the US based cleric Fetullah Gülen, is a bizarre political phenomenon. It…
There is a newspaper, published in Frankfurt and sold along with Frankfurter Allgemeine, Le Monde, Le Figaro, El Pais and The Guardian at kiosks in Europe: Yeni…
TIME, praising all the military coups that happened since May 14 1950, Turkey’s transition into multiparty system, seized the opportunity…
If the referendum on the presidential system in Turkey was a close call for “no,” for instance with 50.1% of…
Is Turkey completely free of issues regarding democracy? No, not completely. Yet, people have become experienced in such matters and…
Turkey is rushing towards the April 16 Referendum, which is potentially one of the most important events in the history…
As we countdown the days towards the referendum, the process of changes that may come from the Presidency system have…
Anti-West sentiments increase among millions of supporters of Erdoğan and even those who oppose him. This rising hate is not…
The AK Party prepared the Constitutional amendment proposal that included a “Presidential System” and proposed this amendment to the Turkish…
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