People’s Alliance: A Game Changer in Turkish Politics?
The leader of MHP, Devlet Bahceli, stated that the MHP would not nominate its own candidates in Istanbul, Ankara, and…
Candidates for Turkey’s Local Elections to be Announced Soon
Change is expected in the AK Party candidate profiles that more than half the candidates will probably be new names.…
Making Sense of Turkey’s New Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Turkey is revolutionizing its counter-terrorism strategy not only against the PKK in Turkey but also against other terrorist organizations in…
Will the CHP Choose the Iyi Party or the HDP?
The CHP and the Iyi Party are trying to find a way to make not a broad but a limited…
Evaluating Turkey’s Upcoming Elections: Future Scenarios
While parties have accelerated their preparations for the upcoming local elections in Turkey, their candidates and strategies are still unclear.
The Future of the People’s Alliance
If the AK Party and the MHP are able to balance between “being rivals” in the local elections and “being…
Is the Old Turkey Coming Back?
The old Turkey was a period when the nation was reduced to only one ethnicity as prescribed in the Student…
Deliberate Misunderstandings Regarding the Republican Character of Turkey
It should be kept in mind that in Turkey today while on the one hand there is no actual problem…
What does Turkey’s Map of Political Alliances Look Like for the Upcoming Local Elections?
What makes the upcoming local elections more important than a simple vote to determine local administrators is the fact that…
The Crisis in the AK Party-MHP Alliance
It is too early to talk about the future of the People’s Alliance. However, it is fair to state that…
Turkish Politics After the Student Oath Debate
In the “Old Turkey,” to use the term coined by the AK Party, courts often examined the “aptness” of government…
Turkey’s 2023 education vision
On 23 October Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke at the 2023 Education Vision program organized by the Ministry of…
What’s Really Behind Turkey’s Student Oath Debate?
It seems that in cases when a decision made by the Erdogan administration is ruled out by a judicial body,…
Turkey’s Student Oath Becomes a Controversial Issue
The Student Oath decision of the Council of State was perceived as taking a step back from democratization efforts and…
“I hereby withdraw all the cases filed for insulting me” President Erdogan said
Justice and Development Party (AK Party) spokesman Ömer Çelik conveyed that the lawsuits filed against students would be withdrawn. The…
Turkey’s Political Parties Set their Local Election Strategies
What do the political parties in Turkey plan for the local elections 2019? What will be their local elections strategies?…
Candidate or Political Party? Who will the Turkish Public Choose in Local Elections?
It is important to understand the transformation of the “urban” in the last decade in order to understand the boundaries…
What do People Expect From a Mayor?
Nowadays, the questions of “what is the true character of a successful mayor” and “what do people expect from mayors”…
