... New Era for the Kurdish Question
In May 2023, Turkey
held
its most recent general-parliamentary and presidential elections. Six parties from various political backgrounds came together to create a coalition against the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) to prepare for these elections. Despite his Kurdish and Alevi identity, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the then leader of the nation's major opposition party, ended up running for president as the opposition alliance's ...
... shall try to identify the most likely scenarios of the political dynamics as well as the outcome of the upcoming elections, which, according to many experts, promise to be the most competitive in the entire history of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule.
Kirill Semenov:
Istanbul Terrorist Attack: What Awaits Turkey and its Neighbors?
Today, power in Turkey is held by the People’s Alliance (“Cumhur İttifakı”) coalition led, in fact, by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The coalition consists of ...
The Evolution of Spin in Turkey’s Justice and Development Party
Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) won a shock victory in the country’s snap election held on November 1, 2015, receiving 49 per cent of the votes. Given the Party’s performance in the June election, where it picked up a modest 40 per cent of votes, analysts were not predicting ...
