The Aftermath of Turkey’s Local Elections: Who Lost, Who Won?
Since there is a minor difference between the votes of AK Party and CHP candidates in Istanbul, the AK Party…
Since there is a minor difference between the votes of AK Party and CHP candidates in Istanbul, the AK Party…
The AK Party increased its votes in the eastern region, which shows that stiff counterterrorism measures against the PKK have…
While parties have accelerated their preparations for the upcoming local elections in Turkey, their candidates and strategies are still unclear.
What makes the upcoming local elections more important than a simple vote to determine local administrators is the fact that…
With its 67 deputies, the HDP has another chance to choose democratic means over violence and polarization ahead of the…
A final finding of the June 24 elections in Turkey is that neither Turkey’s eastern votes nor its Kurdish votes…
The Turkish political system is not unipolar, in which a single party acts unilaterally, but has a dominant power whose…
Parties that adopted traditional nationalist discourse lost the elections. One of the biggest losers of the elections was the CHP…
Turkey’s June 24 election results are considered as a chance by the Turkish diaspora to initiate new and stable bilateral…
The trauma experienced by the CHP electorate since the election day is surely in the realm of psychiatry. However, an…
The post-June 24 elections era in Turkey will not nurture the character of a society of rivals. If anything, it…
Despite all the similarities, there is a significant difference between the latest mobilization of the opposition movement and the previous…
In the eastern cities of Turkey, where the ethnic Kurdish population is in significant numbers, the competition took place between…
The election results brought more space for maneuver for President Erdogan in domestic politics, but the foreign policy challenges are…
Turkey is likely to become a more influential actor in the politics of the Middle East. It is therefore vital…
The June 24 elections were the first general elections that were held in the aftermath of the failed military coup…
It would not be wrong to state that the main objective of the opposition parties, which was to block Erdogan…
Having handled serious domestic and foreign policy crises over the years, including party closure cases and a failed coup attempt,…
The turnout in the elections was higher than 85 percent, which proves the health of Turkish democracy compared to other…
During the ditch terror that the PKK inflicted, half of the population in Sırnak’s Cizre and Silopi districts, Diyarbakir’s Sur…
Many would bet for a victory for Erdogan but with a divided parliament, which will make politics quite hot for…
The Turkish model, offered by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) after 2002, presents a political community of Muslims…
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