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Local elections in Turkey over the weekend saw a some key cities and towns slip away from the party of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party.
With the Turkish leader winning yet another election, the stage is set for him to consolidate his power at home and in the world.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has headed off a political humiliation, but making good on his extravagant promises won’t be easy.
The Turkish lira has dropped more than 15% this year against the US dollar.
Firmly back in control after winning snap elections, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his AKP government are reducing democratic process to a rubber stamp for their undemocratic project.
After being humiliated at a summer election, Turkey’s ruling party set about winning over the population with fear. It seems to have worked.
The June 7 elections were no doubt one of the most critical in modern Turkish history.
Ruling AKP gets a hammering at the polls as pro-Kurdish HDP enters parliament for first time.
With plans to shake up democracy, it’s no wonder the HDP is being compared to Syriza and Podemos.
Can the left-wing HDP cross Turkey’s electoral threshold to transform the nation’s parliament?
Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has swept to a landslide victory in the country’s first direct presidential election. His win follows three terms as the country’s prime minister and he has…
The prospect of the first direct presidential election in Turkey’s history – and the candidacy of pro-Kurdish Selahattin Demirtaş has generated much excitement among the country’s Kurds. Though Demirta…
Turkey awaits a fateful election on August 10. The electorate will be heading back to the polls to elect, for the first time in the country’s Republican history, the president by popular vote. If no candidate…
Turkey’s presidential elections mark a crucial moment for the country, not only because it is the first time that a president will be elected directly by the people, but the future of the country’s political…
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