Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s success in the local elections, despite the anti-democratic steps he has been taking to guard his government against corruption charges
The local elections were not expected to produce a major surprise and they did not. Many hoped for a surprise outcome of course, but most opinion polls indicated this was unlikely.
This is my last piece before Sunday’s March 30 local elections. Normally it would not have made any difference whatsoever.
Prime Minister Erdoğan’s international reputation is at rock bottom. Even Washington is indirectly likening him to Hitler by equating his Twitter ban
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is trying to convince everyone that last summer’s Gezi Park protests and the corruption scandal that broke on Dec. 17, 2013
Whatever the results of the March 30 elections, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is very likely to end up in the minority.
Things are gradually getting out of hand in Turkey, as the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) administration continues to divide society with its vindictive rule that promises no stability for the near future.
Slavic nationalism is an explosive brew, as we know from the former Yugoslavia. The situation in the Crimean peninsula is providing premonitions of a second Bosnia.
PM Erdoğan’s regional enemies, from Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, to Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, must be delighting in the domestic troubles in Turkey
