Erdogan’s Manifesto and Democracy
The shift to a presidential system may be the most critical step in institutionalizing democratic politics in Turkey. It promises…
The shift to a presidential system may be the most critical step in institutionalizing democratic politics in Turkey. It promises…
Over the course of the past seven years, Kilicdaroglu’s CHP differed from former party leader Deniz Baykal’s CHP in this…
Two important strategies of the political opposition failed in the election process. However, this does not mean that the opposition…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
Reducing the Iyi party’s ideological baggage to such an extent that can lead to the creation of further conflict zones…
While the AK Party cannot be blamed for reducing democracy to elections alone, it is accepted that the governing party…
Will CHP be able to break the vicious cycle, contribute to democracy, find solutions to problems and inspire hope in…
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