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KEY ISSUES FOR 2023 TURKISH ELECTIONS
Turkey will organize two elections simultaneously in June 2023: presidential and parliamentary elections. These elections will not only determine the governing body of the country, but somehow the future of the country as well
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COULD ANKARA MAYOR MANSUR YAVAŞ BECOME THE OPPOSITION’S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?
As Turkish economy suffers from high inflation and the devaluation of Turkish lira, the opposition’s hope for replacing long-term serving President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan increases. In that sense, Ankara mayor Mansur Yavaş’s name recently
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TURKEY IN THREE BLOCS
Zülfü Livaneli, famous musician and novelist, several years ago wrote that Turkey was heading towards a great polarization between Islamists, Kurds, and Turkish nationalists.[1] Livaneli later revised his views and wrote that the polarization
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INTERVIEW WITH DR. MATTHEW WEISS ON TURKISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS
Dr. Ozan Örmeci made an interview with Dr. Matthew Weiss from the College of Southern Nevada on April 30, 2021 on recent developments about Turkish-American relations. You can watch this interview from the video
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EARLY PROJECTIONS FOR TURKEY’S NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Turkish domestic politics is always dynamic and excited although the country has been passing through rather difficult times due to the Covid-19 pandemic and economic difficulties. In this context, it should not be forgotten
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2021 YILINDA TÜRKİYE’NİN İÇ VE DIŞ SİYASİ GÜNDEMİ NELER OLACAK?
Giriş Covid-19 pandemisi, derinleşen ekonomik kriz, Türkiye’nin büyük devletlerle (ABD ve Avrupa ülkeleri) yaşadığı diplomatik sorunlar, devam eden Suriyeli mülteci krizi ve siyasetteki kısır tartışmalarla geçen zorlu 2020 yılının ardından, bugünden itibaren yeni bir
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TURKEY-KRG RELATIONS: A TALK WITH DR. BARZAN JAWHER SADEQ
UPA Coordinator Dr. Ozan Örmeci made a talk with Dr. Barzan Jawher Sadeq from Salahaddin University in Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq. You can click on the video to watch the talk
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LES ELECTIONS MUNICIPALES EN TURQUIE 2019 : L’AKP A PERDU DANS LES TROIS PLUS GRANDES VILLES
Les électeurs turcs ont voté pour choisir les nouveaux maires de 81 villes dans le pays dimanche 31 mars 2019. Le parti islamo-conservateur qui dirige la Turquie depuis 2002, l’AKP (Parti de la Justice
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TURKEY’S 2019 LOCAL ELECTIONS: AK PARTI LOST THREE BIG CITIES
Turkey’s 2019 local elections took place on March 31, 2019 Sunday in a relatively peaceful atmosphere. Except for deadly local feuds in Malatya[1] and Gaziantep[2], no serious clashes happened and elections were organized in
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İSTANBUL EKONOMİ ARAŞTIRMA GENEL MÜDÜRÜ CAN SELÇUKİ İLE MÜLAKAT
İstanbul Ekonomi Araştırma Genel Müdürü olan Bilkent Üniversitesi mezunu araştırmacı ve yönetici Can Selçuki ile Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) adına Türk-Amerikan ilişkileri, Türkiye-Avrupa Birliği (AB) ilişkileri ve yaklaşan 2019 yerel seçimleri hakkında bir mülakat
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