“The Opposition Legitimized the Government” – Selahattin Demirtaş
“While continuing the struggle for resistance with every comrade of mine in prison, I am leaving active politics at this...
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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...
Erdoğan’s Marriage of Religion and Nationalism
“On the anniversary of Istanbul’s conquest, the Turkish president’s successful fusion of the secular and the divine may be his...
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...
Turkey Between Atatürk and Erdoğan
The result of this Ottoman absolutism was the same as its previous version’s: collapse. Nepotism, cronyism, and bribery flourished;...