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2024 TURKISH LOCAL ELECTIONS ARE APPROACHING
Introduction After the presidential and parliamentary elections last May, Turkish people are ready to vote once again on March 31, 2024, for electing the municipal leaders (mayors) of 81 cities including 30 metropolitan cities
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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
Read More »NEW BOOK: 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 published a new book entitled 2023 Turkish Elections in All Aspects from
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THE THREAT OF A MAJOR EARTHQUAKE IN ISTANBUL IS GROWING
Introduction While Türkiye still trying to recover from the devastating twin earthquakes in February last year which caused the death of approximately 50,000 citizens and made 10 Anatolian cities almost fully collapse, experienced geologists
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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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KURDISH QUESTION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
With the recent PKK attack on the Turkish military, which led to the death of 12 Turkish soldiers, once again the Kurdish Question or the Kurdish Problem felt its presence in Turkish politics. The
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TÜRKİYE IS HEADING TOWARD 2024 LOCAL ELECTIONS
After the decisive victory of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Islamist/nationalist bloc in Türkiye in the critical presidential and parliamentary elections in May 2023, for a few months, it seemed like politics stopped
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INTERVIEW WITH DR. KLAUS JÜRGENS
Dr. Klaus Jürgens is a German journalist and political analyst from Britain who closely watches and extensively writes about Turkish Foreign Policy and Türkiye’s relations with the Western countries. Jürgens regularly appears on TRT World and
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ERDOĞAN’S SUCCESSOR?
There is no denying that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has dominated the political scene and the political life in the country in the last two decades. Erdoğan gained his first important success in
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SECULAR OPPOSITION IS TOO WEAK IN TÜRKİYE 6 MONTHS BEFORE THE 2024 LOCAL ELECTİONS
Introduction Türkiye is heading towards local elections set for March 31, 2024, approximately 6 months later. After President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his conservative/nationalist bloc’s decisive victory in the 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections,
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