It’s no secret that Sunday’s election results were surprising to everyone, including Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and senior Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials.
The Nov. 1 polls results are clear: The Justice and Development Party (AKP) increased its votes by around nine points since the June polls and re-gained the government it lost
Sunday’s parliamentary election will mark yet another milestone in Turkish political history, just five months after the election in which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its single-party government for the first time in 13 years.
Turkey will hold its fourth election in 20 months on Nov. 1. Unfortunately there is no certainty that this will be the last election in such a string, or that a government will be formed.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Turkey on Oct. 18, only two weeks before the key parliamentary elections, was one of the most important diplomatic developments in regards to Ankara’s accession process to the European Union.
My two previous columns were focused on an ongoing tension between the United States and Turkey over the former’s Oct. 10 airdropping ammunition to the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is considered a terrorist organization by the Turkish government.
One of last week’s most important issues was the Turkish government’s strong reaction against the United States airdropping military logistics to local forces, including the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) who is fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Syria
Only three days after the deadly suicide bombings that killed 97 people in the country’s gravest terror incident, we, as the Ankara bureau chiefs of some newspapers, had the chance to meet with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu at a breakfast on Oct. 13 and discuss all dimensions of this massacre
On Nov. 1, Turkey will hold its fourth election in the last 20 months with hopes that it will be the last one and will help to reduce the political tension in the country by paving the way for the establishment of a stable government to immediately address Turkey’s pending issues.
