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EARLY COMMENTS FOR TURKEY’S 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Turkey will have its first joint parliamentary and Presidential election on November 3, 2019 following the local election on March 24, 2019. Although it is still too early to comment on these elections, I
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TÜRK DIŞ POLİTİKASI LİTERATÜRÜNE YENİ BİR KATKI: ‘TURKEY’S RELATIONS WITH THE MIDDLE EAST’
Türkiye’nin açılan yeni üniversiteleri, düşünce kuruluşları ve genişleyen vizyonuna paralel olarak, Türk Dış Politikası literatüründe de son dönemde birbiri ardına yeni ve önemli kitaplar yayınlanmaya başladı. Bu kitaplardan birisi de, Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi (YDÜ)
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GOOD PARTY IS ESTABLISHED IN TURKEY
A new right-wing political party was established few days ago in Turkey by the former Minister of Interior and the Vice Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Mrs. Meral Akşener with the name
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YRD. DOÇ. DR. OZAN ÖRMECİ’DEN YENİ MAKALE: “MILITARY COUPS: DO THEY STILL MATTER IN THE 21 ST CENTURY AND THE TURKISH EXAMPLE”
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü ve Beykent Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi (İngilizce) bölümü öğretim üyesi Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci’nin “Military Coups: Do They Still Matter in the 21st Century and
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RPP LEADER KEMAL KILIÇDAROĞLU’S ‘JUSTICE MARCH’
Introduction Turkey’s pro-secular, pro-European and social democratic main opposition party, Republican People’s Party (RPP – Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi in Turkish) is often criticized for being too harsh on secularism as well as acting in an elitist
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PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM APPROVED IN TURKEY
Turkish people voted slightly (% 51,41 “yes” votes against % 48,59 “no” votes) in favor of the constitutional changes proposed by the governing Islamist Justice and Development Party (JDP-AKP) and Turkish nationalist Nationalist Action
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TAYYIP ERDOGAN’S AFRICAN ROMANCE
In recent years, there have been closer links between President Erdogan’s Turkey and Africa. We saw more of these ties in 2016 with his tour to four West African states (Guinea, Nigeria, Ivory Coast
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RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY MR. ANDREY KARLOV WAS SHOT DEAD IN ANKARA
Russian ambassador to Turkey, Mr. Andrey (Andrei) Karlov (1954-2016) was shot dead in Ankara on December 19, 2016 while making a speech at an art exhibit in Çağdaş Sanatlar Galerisi in Ankara. Mr. Karlov
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DIFFERENT SECTS AND THEIR POLITICAL LEANINGS IN TURKEY
Political Scientists try to understand and explain the voting behavior of citizens for a time being. Obviously, there are several dimensions on electoral voting and political affiliation but maybe the most important one is
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TURKEY: NO LONGER A DEMOCRACY
Pro-Kurdish parliamentarians being dragged into police cars[1], assassination attempts[2] and police raids[3] are taking place towards critical journalists, death-penalty is prepared to be introduced to the legal system[4] and a purge against moderate Islamist
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