Hopes Slashed by Despair
Erdoğan’s voters don’t believe that they live in a dictatorship. They believe that what they have now, because of Erdoğan, is a...
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Erdoğan Secures His Throne With a Powerful ‘Adhesive’
In his divided country, the strongest “adhesive” is extreme nationalism. So, Erdoğan has every reason to continue suppressing domestic...
Four Reasons The Opposition Overestimated its Chances
The key issue is that Erdoğan controlled nearly every aspect of how the election was contested, and that is the main explanation for why...
Women and LGBTQ+ People Will Pay the Price for Erdoğan’s Win
For civil society and rights defenders, five more years of the Turkish president and his radical backers are a daunting prospect. On...
Why Erdoğan Won
The wrong candidate ran a poor campaign in Turkey’s presidential elections. Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s loss against incumbent President...
Game Over
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: “Erdoğan Will Have To Change Economic Course. His Current Policy is Not Sustainable.”
Henri Barkey, Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University and an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the...
Turkey’s Future Course Under Erdoğan
It seems that Erdoğan will try to muddle through as he has successfully since the Great Recession. Whether he can successfully fend off a...
How to Read Turkey’s Election Results—So Far
Turkey’s presidential runoff election set for May 28 appears to favor longtime incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with little...
Bobby Ghosh: Biden Should Not Placate Erdogan
“If Erdogan wins the runoff on Sunday as expected, the theme of his acceptance speech will be that Turkey is not for turning. Biden...