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WHAT TO EXPECT FROM TURKISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS DURING BIDEN ERA?
Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is elected 46th President of the United States. Biden will start his tenure in office in January 2021. Joe Biden recently began to announce
Read More »COULD MUHARREM INCE START A NEW POLITICAL PARTY?
Muharrem İnce (1964-)[1] is an experienced Turkish politician who has been a pro-secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy (from Yalova) between 2002 and 2018, five times consecutively (2002, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2015). Due to
Read More »CALIPHATE DISCUSSIONS IN TURKEY
Introduction After a court decision that made the 1934 Presidential decree void, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan successfully converted Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) into a mosque from a museum.[1] The decision was welcomed and celebrated
Read More »TURKEY: A MODERN HISTORY BY ERIK-JAN ZÜRCHER
Author: Erik Jan Zürcher Professor Erik-Jan Zürcher (1953-) is the Academic Director and Professor of Area Studies in Leiden University. Zürcher was awarded his MA in Middle East Studies at Leiden University in 1977 and
Read More »TURKISH POLITICS: CURRENT SITUATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
Similar to other countries, due to Covid-19 (coronavirus) crisis, party politics have been forgotten for a while in Turkey. However, because of the strong political polarization in the country, the latest voting rates of
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