To Uphold and Preserve Legacy of July 15
The legacy of July 15, which brought together people from various backgrounds for the sake of Turkey's future, must be kept alive for the next generations
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One Year On: Economic Resistance to July 15
Military interventions that interrupt the normal functioning of democratic regimes and utilize brutal military force to suppress legitimate political authorities and their support base open deep wounds in social fabrics.
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The AK Party's insistence for dynamism and change will help refresh itself in the new period under the leadership of Erdoğan
President Erdogan’s accomplished performance of development in many areas such as reforms, development, energy and trade since 2003, is AK Party’s main advantage in the next period.
What are the weaknesses of the current system of governance in terms of the economy? What will the presidential system bring to the Turkish Economy?
Compared to 2014, the opposition will have a more difficult time finding a suitable candidate for their joint campaign.
Erdoğan in India: 'The World Is Bigger Than Five'
Turkey and India are among the developing countries trying to change their role in the international system. Noting that the U.N. Security Council remains ineffective and unjust, both nations often call for reform.
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A Busy Month of May in Turkey
The April 16 constitutional referendum did not lower the tensions in Turkish politics. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to India, Russia, China, Belgium and the U.S. in the coming weeks.
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The "yes" result in the referendum disappointed campaigners for "no" in the West more than the "no" front in Turkey. They clearly took up a position politically and failed.
Erdoğan's principal messages to African leaders focus on establishing long-term social and economic partnerships on the basis of mutual respect and common benefits through capacity building, entrepreneurship and human development
The AK Party management feels that the post-Washington consensus type regulatory capitalism based on international capital flows, credit-led growth and service orientation has reached its natural limits
2016 will be a year of important decisions, especially for Kurdish nationalists.
The most important issue facing the AK Party, and of course the Parliament that has been shaped by the Nov. 1 elections, is the writing up of a new, civilian constitution.
What Turkey desperately needs, above and beyond party politics, is an end to the elite-level tensions that trigger political polarization across the country.
With a significant drop in public support, the AK Party currently faces various challenges in forming a coalition with other parties.
In Turkey's political history, coalition governments have been marred by internal wrangling, turf wars, failures in governance, acute corruption and so forth.
Last week, Erdoğan attended a conference on Turkey's transition to presidentialism at the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) and stressed that the political leadership was "addressing issues that the Ottoman-Turkish modernization project had ignored for two centuries to build the system of government anew."
