The elections in Türkiye on May 14 are increasingly overshadowed by acts of accusations, threats and physical violence. UWI has compiled below some of the incidents. 1) Verbal attack on Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu – April 21 The opposition’s main presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, was verbally attacked on April 21 during a visit to the earthquake-hit city of Adıyaman. Kılıçdaroğlu visited a ...
As the countdown towards the 14 May elections continues, public opinion polls reveal very different results concerning the winner of the elections. An interesting picture emerges when an average is taken apart from the results of the survey companies known to be clearly sided between the People’s Alliance led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s Nation Alliance. Both blocs ...
UWI author Onur Sinan Güzaltan was the guest of Russia Today. The British Economist published an article that claimed Erdoğan victory in the presidential elections would harm democracy in Türkiye. Güzaltan responded questions in regard to the article and Western interventions into the elections. Below is the transcription of the program. Our guest is Onur Sinan Güzaltan, Turkish political ...
As Türkiye is going through the critical last 6 days of the election process, candidates and parties continue their campaigns with rallies, statements, and promises. Statements regarding foreign policy also have an important place in the electoral process. The ruling party has joined the opposition in making statements about “good relations with the West”. Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s remarks of ...
by Yiğit Saner writing for UWI from Rome / Italy One of the eight elections that will change the world in 2023 will take place in Türkiye. Perhaps the most prominent reason behind the international interest in the elections is undoubtedly the fact that a country of great geopolitical importance like Türkiye creates an area of influence stretching from Libya ...
According to the statements of its leaders, the oppositional alliance, the ‘Table of Six’, proposes the following policy regarding Syria: The Turkish Army will withdraw from Syrian territory. Türkiye will reach an agreement with the Syrian government. Syrians in Türkiye will be sent back to Syria. Ambassadors will be appointed reciprocally. It is innocence at the first sight. But there ...
By Oscar Rotundo * What has been the change in the electoral system with respect to 2018 and what is its importance with respect to the future of the country? Yunus Soner – Good afternoon Oscar from here in Istanbul, I am going to try to provide you with an analysis of the situation. Candidates and coalitions On May 14, ...
By Bessam Abu Abdullah * The presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye also concern the unity and sovereignty of Syria, the laws regulating the marriage, family and property laws of the Islamic, Messianic, Jewish and Druze communities, and the future of the secular and unitary state structure. They are also about whether the ethnic and sectarian separatist goals of the ...
Sinan Oğan, the fourth candidate in Türkiye’s May 14 presidential (and also parliamentary) elections, is a former deputy from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which is now Erdoğan’s ally. Born in 1967 in Iğdır, Türkiye’s easternmost city bordering Armenia and Iran, Oğan is the youngest of the presidential candidates. The characteristics of the Victory Party (Zafer Partisi) chaired by Ümit ...
Türkiye’s parliament was scheduled to discuss the law of approving Finland’s NATO membership on Thursday, March 30. The law has already passed the parliament’s commission for foreign relations. At the end of the debate, the parliament will vote on the law and thus approve or reject Finland’s membership. Ahead of the vote, Vatan Party Chairman Doğu Perinçek called the members ...