The Effect of the Ankara Attack on Turkey
The HDP sees the latest wave of attacks as a window of opportunity to support its anti-Erdoğan propaganda for the Nov. 1 elections. However, this discourse only benefits the West's campaign to smear Turkey
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What The Killers Want
We have hope for the future nonetheless, because Turkey has made significant progress over the years and has what it takes to overcome the current challenges.
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This election analysis wiill focus on the June election results, the coalition formation process that failed in the period after the elections and variables that will influence the voting behavior of the Turkish electorates in the upcoming elections.
The grievous fact that hundreds of people were brutally killed and wounded by the latest suicide bombings in Ankara renders all strategies, political analyses and comments meaningless
The moral of this true story for starters on Turkey is to never take anything at face value in Turkey's wild politics.
The positive elections campaigns carried out by political parties justify the AK Party's struggle against military tutelage to strengthen the democratization process of Turkish politics
Expats' Votes, an Essential Element of Turkish Elections
As most of the technical problems are managed the turnout of the voters is increasing from election to election having like this a great impact on the final outcome.
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The Evolution of Turkey's Kurdish Problem
The AK Party's efforts to end the past's military intervention in politics, chauvinism of governments discriminating against Kurdish people, still makes the party the most reformist one in Turkish politics.
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The PKK's terror, which ended the reconciliation process despite the state's wishes and efforts, and the HDP's supportive statements of this terror seem to shape the electorate's behavior in the Nov. 1 elections.
The latest anti-terror meetings have made it quite clear that all sides, with the exclusion of the PKK and HDP, believe it is the common fate of both Turks and Kurds to share the same land, values, religion and tradition.
Although parties have not yet started to announce their campaigns for the upcoming Nov. 1 elections, political backgrounds, promises and attitudes on PKK terror will be the key factors headlining their agenda.
The integrative modernization understanding of the AK Party comprising different races, cultures and social structures, unlike the opposition parties, makes the party the main actor in Turkish politics.
