Developments in Tal Abyad, a strategic border town in Syria just south of the Turkish town of Akçakale, are proving again that developments in Syria are not determined by Ankara’s desires and needs.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attempt to impose his will on parliament after the elections is already faltering.
The “Palace,” as it has come to be proverbially known in the short space of time that it has started to be used, has fallen into what we might call with literary flair a “deafening silence” following the elections.
Foreign investors are probably not pleased with the results of the elections. Judging by pre-election analyses, the best outcome for them was for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to lose and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to win.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is on the warpath again against the independent Turkish and foreign media
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is back hounding a media organ, this time daily Cumhuriyet, and Can Dündar, its editor-in-chief, for publishing footage about three Syria-bound trucks that were stopped by the gendarmerie near Adana in January 2014.
Uncertainty dominates the program to “train-and-equip” moderate elements of the Syrian opposition that Ankara and Washington were said to have agreed on months ago.
Faced with increasing criticism that he is violating the constitution – which requires him to remain above party politics – and that he is actively campaigning on behalf of the ruling AKP, President Erdoğan is claiming now that he is neutral and remains at an equal distance toward all political parties.
The general elections are fast approaching. Many are wondering whether the political scene in Turkey will experience a change that may not relegate the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to the backseat
