How Turkey’s Opposition Demonizes Refugees
According to the CHP leader, every segment of society, “shopkeepers, farmers, laborers, unemployed, disabled, interns, and others” are deprived of…
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Why Is the German Government Cooperating with the Turkish Opposition?
Three coalition parties of the German government are closer to the Turkish opposition than to the Turkish government because of…
Growing Divisions within the CHP Breaking to the Surface
It is certain that this latest incident is related to the ongoing conflict between two splinter groups within the party:…
Why Did the CHP Change Its Position Over Syria Again?
The CHP’s flip-flopping position on the Syria issue shows a clash of opinions between two different blocs within the party.
Why did the CHP hold a Conference on Syria?
The CHP’s controversial Syria conference report urges the Turkish government to work with the Syrian regime for a resolution and…
Is the Nation Alliance Collapsing?
The Iyi Party’s Spokesperson Yavuz Agıralioglu announced that if the CHP keeps its relations with the HDP intact, the Iyi…
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 Victory of Turkish Democracy
The turnout in the elections was higher than 85 percent, which proves the health of Turkish democracy compared to other…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Why Will Anti-Erdoganism Bring Defeat to the Opposition?
Anti-Erdoganism is far from responding to societal demands and this makes it a poor idea in creating the largest and…
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…
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…
Why Does the Opposition in Turkey Polarize Society?
Usually accompanied by the use of virulent and exclusionary language towards the rest, polarization of society occurs by splitting it…
