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MAY 1, LABOR DAY CELEBRATION CONTROVERSY IN TÜRKİYE
May Day, Labor Day, or International Workers’ Day is an official celebration and holiday for laborers and worker classes around the world. International Workers’ Day represents the political and socioeconomic gains that the worker
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »A GLIMPSE INTO 2024
2023 Snapshot Similar to the preceding years, 2023 was characterized by heightened geopolitical instabilities, exacerbated by the war in Gaza. The growing adversarial nature and instability in the world order cast a shadow over
Read More »CANDIDATES FOR THE 2024 ISTANBUL LOCAL ELECTION ARE SET: EKREM İMAMOĞLU VS. MURAT KURUM
Turkish President and AK Parti leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan finally announced his Islamist/conservative/nationalist bloc People’s Alliance’s (Cumhur İttifakı) candidate for the 2024 Istanbul local election that will take place on March 31, 2024. Erdoğan
Read More »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
Read More »CRISIS OF FOOTBALL DIPLOMACY: THE TURKISH SUPER CUP FINAL MATCH IN RIYADH IS CANCELED
Sports can be used in a way to enhance diplomatic relations and can help hostile nations to develop friendlier relations. In the past, during the Cold War, the Sino-American rapprochement began with the ping-pong
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