A comprehensive police raid on one of Turkey’s top conglomerates, Koza İpek Holding, which owns opposition media outlets, television channels Bugün TV and Kanaltürk and newspapers Bugün and Millet, came only two months before the early elections that will take place on Nov. 1.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan concluded his first year in the presidency on Aug. 28, 2015 on the same day as Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu submitted to him the interim government that will take Turkey to early elections on Nov 1. Even this coincidence gives us sufficient evidence to analyze the one-year performance of Erdoğan as president
With less than 10 days until the expiration of the 45-day deadline for the formation of a government, Turkey’s two biggest parties, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP), announced their failure in reaching a deal on a government.
The upcoming make-it-or-break-it meeting between the leaders of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) will show whether the two men can reach out and compromise on key contentious areas to form a “grand coalition.”
The implementation of a deal between Turkey and the United States in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has already started, as armed drones from İncirlik air base hit jihadist troops earlier this week.
The title of this column on June 13, just a week after the June 7 parliamentary elections, read “An Erdoğan-Bahçeli coalition for early polls?,” questioning similarities on initial reactions of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli.
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government continues its cross border operations full speed, as the Turkish Air Forces conduct intensified bombardments on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in the northern Iraq
Turkey’s three-year-long Kurdish peace process ended last week, as Turkish warplanes bombed and artillery units shelled outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq in retaliation to the killing of two Turkish policemen by PKK terrorists.
This column on July 22 cited the deadly suicide bomb attack that killed 32 youngsters in the town of Suruç in the province of Şanlıurfa on the Syrian border as a declaration of war by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Turkey
