By Şafak Erdem On March 17th, Vladimir Putin won the Russian presidential election with 87.8% of the votes, according to the announced results. The turnout was over 74% with the candidate Nikolay Haritonov from the Communist Party receiving 4.7%, Vladislav Davankov from the New People’s Party 3.6% and Leonid Slutskiy from the Liberal Democratic Party 2.5% of the votes. 1.4% ...
As the elections approach, we are going through a period that makes it difficult to understand what’s going on in Turkish politics, especially after the earthquake disaster. The AKP government under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership has been in power for 21 years. The government’s ‘balance policy’ and the opposition’s ‘messages’ to the West Starting out with a liberal, pro-Western and ...