Erdoğan’s Victory is a ‘Happy Ending’ for Russia
‘So, the incumbent President Recep Erdoğan has won it. And Russians started, in a rush, to buy trips to Turkish resorts, reservations...
‘So, the incumbent President Recep Erdoğan has won it. And Russians started, in a rush, to buy trips to Turkish resorts, reservations...
Erdoğan’s voters don’t believe that they live in a dictatorship. They believe that what they have now, because of Erdoğan, is a...
In his divided country, the strongest “adhesive” is extreme nationalism. So, Erdoğan has every reason to continue suppressing domestic...
“While continuing the struggle for resistance with every comrade of mine in prison, I am leaving active politics at this...
The key issue is that Erdoğan controlled nearly every aspect of how the election was contested, and that is the main explanation for why...
For civil society and rights defenders, five more years of the Turkish president and his radical backers are a daunting prospect. On...
The wrong candidate ran a poor campaign in Turkey’s presidential elections. Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s loss against incumbent President...
Turkey’s regime has changed – arguably and most likely forever. Let us cut to the chase. With the conclusion of the national runoff...
Henri Barkey, Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University and an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the...
It seems that Erdoğan will try to muddle through as he has successfully since the Great Recession. Whether he can successfully fend off a...