Is the Turkish Opposition Really an Alternative?
Despite the rising public displeasure with the existing ruling power, the opposition seems to fail to offer itself as an…
Despite the rising public displeasure with the existing ruling power, the opposition seems to fail to offer itself as an…
The AK Party is expected to reveal its candidate for Istanbul on Saturday.
After the party assembly meeting for determining candidates for local elections yesterday, Seyit Torun – deputy head of the CHP…
The leader of MHP, Devlet Bahceli, stated that the MHP would not nominate its own candidates in Istanbul, Ankara, and…
Change is expected in the AK Party candidate profiles that more than half the candidates will probably be new names.…
If the AK Party and the MHP are able to balance between “being rivals” in the local elections and “being…
The old Turkey was a period when the nation was reduced to only one ethnicity as prescribed in the Student…
What makes the upcoming local elections more important than a simple vote to determine local administrators is the fact that…
It is too early to talk about the future of the People’s Alliance. However, it is fair to state that…
In the “Old Turkey,” to use the term coined by the AK Party, courts often examined the “aptness” of government…
What do the political parties in Turkey plan for the local elections 2019? What will be their local elections strategies?…
Nowadays, Turkey has been discussing the possibility of pre-electoral alliances in local elections. Last week, chairman of the MHP –…
The Turkish political system is not unipolar, in which a single party acts unilaterally, but has a dominant power whose…
Having handled serious domestic and foreign policy crises over the years, including party closure cases and a failed coup attempt,…
According to YSK rules, pre-election restrictions will be implemented by June 14 and parties will have to re-organize their campaign…
On June 24, the people will rather decide whether the country should revert the old oligarchic regime in which the…
While some parties followed a more transparent method and informed the public at every stage of their parliamentary candidacy process,…
After the announcement of the alliance, supporters of the Felicity Party criticized the cooperation of their party with the CHP…
Anti-Erdoganism is far from responding to societal demands and this makes it a poor idea in creating the largest and…
To get a clear notion of what’s happening in Turkey, the following main points can be taken into consideration: First,…
Overall, it should be emphasized that the political opposition in Turkey still suffer to decide on their strategy for the…
The alliance-forming process between the AK Party and the MHP also revealed another tangible outcome of the presidential system: reconciliation…
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