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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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MAINSTREAM POLITICAL PARTIES’ PERSPECTIVE ON EUROPEAN UNION IN TÜRKİYE
The European Union (EU) is an issue that has triggered different reactions and perspectives among political parties in Türkiye (Turkey). Approaches towards the EU are based on political parties’ ideological differences, perceptions of national
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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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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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YENİ KİTAP: 2023 TURKISH ELECTIONS IN ALL ASPECTS (TÜM YÖNLERİYLE 2023 TÜRKİYE SEÇİMLERİ)
İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler (İngilizce) bölümü öğretim üyesi ve Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Kurucu Genel Koordinatörü Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci’nin 2023 Türkiye Cumhurbaşkanlığı ve parlamento seçimlerini ve Türkiye siyasetinde son
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BOOK LAUNCH TALK: 2023 TURKISH ELECTIONS IN ALL ASPECTS
Istanbul Aydın University Political Science and International Relations department staff and UPA-International Political Academy’s founder and General Coordinator Assoc. Prof. Ozan Örmeci participated in a live broadcast on December 28, 2023, about his newly
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INTRODUCING KEMAL KILIÇDAROĞLU, THE OPPOSITION’S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Introduction While the state and all people have been trying to heal the wounds of the destruction caused by the great earthquakes in Türkiye (Turkey), conscious people, who think that this unfortunate situation that
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TÜRKİYE WILL HOLD ITS PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ON MAY 14, 2023
Introduction Now the date is set; Türkiye (Turkey) will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, 2023. As a country that has always been struggling to embrace full democracy in the last
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CRACK IN THE OPPOSITION MIGHT SECURE ANOTHER EASY VICTORY FOR ERDOĞAN IN TURKIYE
Introduction Türkiye (Turkey) is heading towards presidential and parliamentary elections on the 100th year anniversary of the foundation of the Republic with a lot of question marks. In this piece, I am going to
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GROWING POLITICAL POLARIZATION IN TÜRKİYE AFTER THE DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKES
Introduction Turkish people still suffer psychologically and economically due to the terrible earthquakes that occurred on February 6, 2023 in the south-eastern villages of the country. Centered in Kahramanmaraş, two sequenced earthquakes almost destroyed
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