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NERVOUS AND POLARIZED RAMADAN FEAST THIS YEAR IN TÜRKİYE
Religious holidays in Türkiye (Turkey) are traditionally known as a time when resentments are reconciled and arguments are settled. However, as a result of this year’s unexpected developments, Ramadan 2025 is taking place in
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ISTANBUL MAYOR EKREM İMAMOĞLU IS ARRESTED
Istanbul’s popular Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu (1971-), who is widely seen by the opposition voters as Türkiye’s next President, was arrested on March 23, 2025, on the day his party held a primary election to
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ISTANBUL MAYOR EKREM İMAMOĞLU IS DETAINED
Istanbul’s popular Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu (1971-), who is widely regarded as the country’s next President in the potential post-Erdoğan process in the coming years, was detained yesterday with corruption charges and allegations of links
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IMPRISONED PKK LEADER ABDULLAH ÖCALAN’S HISTORIC CALL FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
Introduction On February 27, 2025, imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan made a historic call to his organization’s members for the dissolution of the outlawed political organization. Öcalan, who has been serving his sentence (lifetime
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POLITICAL POLARIZATION IN TÜRKİYE RISES WITH NEW ARRESTS TOWARDS THE OPPOSITION
Introduction Political polarization in Türkiye has begun to rise once again with new arrests and investigations towards some key figures from the country’s pro-secular opposition. While the voices of the opposition in the country
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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TURKISH POLITICS (OCTOBER 2024)
Following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reelection in 2023, Turkish political life was expected to be stable. However, upon the extraordinary success of the main opposition party -pro-secular and pro-EU- CHP (Republican People’s Party) in
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AN ANALYSIS OF 2024 TURKISH LOCAL ELECTIONS
Introduction Türkiye’s 2024 local elections created optimism within and outside of the country about the future of Turkish democracy. That is because the main opposition party, the pro-secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) with its
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TÜRKİYE’S 2024 LOCAL ELECTIONS: CHP BECAME THE LEADING PARTY
Turkish people went to ballots yesterday (31 March 2024) to set the municipal leaders of 30 metropolitan cities, 51 cities, and hundreds of districts/counties. As citizens of a country known for the highest election
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2028 SCENARIOS FOR TÜRKİYE
Türkiye will hold its local elections on March 31, 2024. The elections will be a battleground as usual between the right-wing Islamist and ultranationalist bloc led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist/conservative AK Parti
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TÜRKİYE’S 2024 LOCAL ELECTIONS: WHAT TO EXPECT?
Türkiye will have another democratic process on March 31, 2024. This time, Turkish people will go to the ballots to choose the mayors of 81 cities and 922 districts as well as members of
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