In an innovative move by the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) shared a video in its election campaign in which the party chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is portrayed as an animation, in terms totally unique for them in the digital world: On social media.
As we look at the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, it would be useful to remember and take note of the data for the 2011 elections and how parties’ grassroots move.
The news that emerged from the war front in Syria on June 12 showed that the opposition-held villages of Al-Lataminah in Idlib’s south and Markabah to its east have been coming under the artillery fire of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The issue that concerns Turkey with regard to this is that the ninth observation point that the Turkish Armed Forces has established in the town of Murak is located just eight or nine kilometers northeast of Markabah.
The snap elections due to take place on June 24 will mark a first, with the presidential and parliamentary ballots put into a single envelope.
One of the most critical questions regarding the snap elections to be held in three weeks’ time concerns the poll results for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The voting preferences of traditional Turkish nationalist voters since the opposition inside the MHP has separated from the party under the new identity of the İYİ (Good) Party can be a determining factor in influencing the June 24 election.
What messages are the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) giving to voters on the Kurdish issue? What solution framework does it pledge?
One of the contesting parties in the June 24 elections under scrutiny is the Felicity Party (SP), which still holds the flag of its late founder and the leader of the National View movement of political Islam Prof. Necmettin Erbakan.
The strongest stakeholder of the alliance defines itself as a social democratic party that embraces secularism. (The Republican People’s Party [CHP])
Looking back now, everything does click into place.
