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Who is using Sedat Peker ABDULKADİR SELVİ

Who is using Sedat Peker?

When I first reached Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, he said: “I was in Idlib. That’s why we had difficulty contacting each other. I landed now.”

May 14 2021
Messages from ballot boxes ABDULKADİR SELVİ

Messages from ballot boxes

These local elections in which two big alliances did run against each other delivered important messages for both the government and the opposition. The electorate has given a warning to the government but without causing a major instability.

April 01 2019
Who will be the CHP’s mayoral candidate for İzmir ABDULKADİR SELVİ

Who will be the CHP’s mayoral candidate for İzmir?

The Republican People’s Party (CHP) has entered a very critical week. This weekend, the mayoral candidate of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality along with its districts will be announced. Istanbul’s districts will also be finalized for the most part. Circles are talking about a list trending around Istanbul mayoral candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu and the CHP’s Istanbul provincial organization.

January 22 2019
New polemic between Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu ABDULKADİR SELVİ

New polemic between Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu

A new discussion has emerged between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. I don’t mean that a new debate has formed as if Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu never argue. Starting from the queues people had to wait in at Social Insurance Institution (SSK) hospitals, when Kılıçdaroğlu was running them in the 1990s, the pair has had quarrels over almost all topics. I guess they only agree on the fact that Ankara is the capital city.

January 02 2019
How long will the People’s Alliance last ABDULKADİR SELVİ

How long will the People’s Alliance last?

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also the leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli have announced that their parties will not form an alliance for the upcoming local elections. In response to Bahçeli who announced there would be no alliance in the local polls, Erdoğan said: “Everyone will go their separate ways.”

October 25 2018
Will the ‘People’s Alliance’ continue ABDULKADİR SELVİ

Will the ‘People’s Alliance’ continue?

First of all, there is a need to agree on the name. The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) says “this is not an amnesty but a reduction of sentence.” The opposition argues that the MHP’s proposal is exactly an amnesty.

September 26 2018
Will the İYİ Party have an alliance with the CHP ABDULKADİR SELVİ

Will the İYİ Party have an alliance with the CHP?

The deputy head of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Mehmet Özhaseki and his interlocutor at the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Sadir Durmaz are expected to meet this week to discuss the conditions of the alliance. But no date for the appointment has been decided yet.

September 19 2018
Turkish intel reported three days before the Reyhanlı attack ABDULKADİR SELVİ

Turkish intel reported three days before the Reyhanlı attack

Yusuf Nazik, who was among those involved in the Reyhanlı attack, which killed 53 of our citizens in 2013, was brought to Turkey from Syria, after a breathtaking operation by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). A short time ago, İsmail Özden, in charge of the illegal PKK’s Sincar branch, was neutralized by the MİT in a joint operation with the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK).

September 13 2018
Erdoğan-Bahçeli alliance and CHP’s preparations ABDULKADİR SELVİ

Erdoğan-Bahçeli alliance and CHP’s preparations

The local elections are eight months away, but the preparations have been building up fast already.

September 06 2018