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 ...
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 ...
Türkiye’s electoral agenda continued to advance at full speed last week. AKP and CHP officials’ meetings with US counterparts and their statements on Türkiye-US relations became the top topic. Another issue was the AKP’s negotiations with the radical religious party HÜDAPAR on whether this party would join the People’s Alliance. The talks between the Nation Alliance and the HDP, known ...
The common opinion across the political spectrum is that on May 14 2023, Türkiye will hold the most important election in the history of the 100-year Republic. This is the prevailing opinion in the world too. In a country of 85 million inhabitants, although the exact number has not yet been announced, more than 60 million voters (64 million according ...
Western Eurasia is witnessing intensive diplomacy traffic. US Chairman of Chief of Staff, Mike Milley visited the – illegally deployed – US troops on Syrian soil, and the US Secretary of Defense toured West Asia. China has mediated the mutual reopening of the Iranian and Saudi Arabian embassies, while Israel faces domestic turmoil. Again Beijing has taken on the scene ...
By Ismet Özçelik, writing from Ankara / Türkiye Meral Akşener was the loser in the last meeting of the Table of Six. A meeting between Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Good Party Chairman Meral Akşener, CHP Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and CHP Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş preceded the meeting. The vice presidency for İmamoğlu and Yavaş was announced ...