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- One portion of Turkiye’s public opinion is in favor of holding early elections, meaning earlier than the scheduled year of 2028. This is partly because the last general election, held in 2023, and this year’s municipal elections gave signals that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Dev...
- The local elections held last week in Turkiye may herald the beginning of a new era in the country’s domestic politics. The Republican People’s Party, known as the CHP, was established more than a century ago, in 1923, and ruled Turkiye as a single party until 1950. After that, it came to powe...
- Relations between Turkiye and Iraq have certainly improved in recent times. After the Second Gulf War, there was a shadow of American influence on Turkish-Iraqi relations. When the Turkish parliament refused to allow US troops to transit Turkiye to open a new front in the north of Iraq, Ankara...
- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met on Feb. 17 during the Munich Security Conference. It was a nice surprise that both leaders were able to make it to Germany. There is now a thaw in Azerbaijani-Armenian relations. Using this opportunity, German C...
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a well-advertised visit to Cairo on Feb. 14 and met his counterpart, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. The agenda included a range of items touching on defense, energy, trade, culture, tourism, education, LNG, nuclear and renewable energy. Egypt has made huge inv...
- In keeping with tradition, I would like to share my assessment about the major events of 2023 in Turkiye and the region. A strong earthquake on Feb. 6 shook several southwestern provinces of Turkiye and proved that the government was not prepared for such calamities. Ten provinces were hit and...
- Two events dominated Turkiye’s agenda last week. One was the two successive attacks that caused the deaths of 12 Turkish soldiers. They were killed by PKK — the Kurdistan Workers’ Party — terrorists in northern Iraq. The second was the Turkish parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee’s approval o...
- A semblance of change occurred three weeks ago in the EU’s attitude toward Turkiye. Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, and Oliver Verhelyi, the European commissioner for neighborhood and enlargement, made comprehensive statements about the state...
- After several fluctuations, a thaw in Turkish-Greek relations has now been resumed. Sometimes, familial relations become better after a dispute. This is what is taking place in the Turkish-Greek relationship. All the contentious issues are still stored up, but both sides are focusing their atte...
- Relations between Azerbaijan and the EU recently reached their lowest point because the latter could not resist the temptation of meddling in Azerbaijani and Armenian affairs. This happened at the same time as Yerevan began reducing its dependence on the Collective Security Treaty Organization,...
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