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 electoral behavior of Turkey’s Kurds with regard to the AK Party and Erdogan vis a vis the HDP shows…
There are three interrelated weaknesses of the Turkish opposition: the lack of ideological inclusiveness, the lack of leadership, and the…
To get a clear notion of what’s happening in Turkey, the following main points can be taken into consideration: First,…
The fact that there are only two months before the elections means that the government cannot resort to populist policies…
Overall, it should be emphasized that the political opposition in Turkey still suffer to decide on their strategy for the…
The CHP chairman Kilicdaroglu does not seem to know yet if he will run himself as a candidate or nominate the names…
Erdogan knows that he will win in any pairwise election and that is the reason why he presents the elections…
The options before the opposition comes to be either to transform the secular-nationalist identity of its constituent in order to…
The strategic reasons behind the early election decision are multidimensional and it may influence current Turkish foreign and security policies.…
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