Turkey In the Global Pecking Order

The general elections on Nov. 1 come at a critical juncture in which Turkey's position in the global pecking order as the rotating president of the G20 would be put to a stringent test. A re-injection of political stability might alleviate many systemic risks and turn around gloomy expectations concerning the country's prospects.

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Turkey In the Global Pecking Order
Political Parties' Election Agendas

Political Parties' Election Agendas

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.

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The re-composition of governing boards at the AK Party ordinary congress on Sept. 12 and candidate lists for the parliamentary elections on Nov. 1 were received positively as attempts to mobilize the potential electorate with the insertion of more, rather than less, "Erdoğan effect" through known political faces from his entourage.

The AK Party derived its power from three main sources: First, a discourse of civilization allowed the movement to incorporate various political ideologies into its own platform…

After realizing that joining the anti-Erdoğan bloc with opposition parties would legitimize its presence, the PKK, by doing so, created itself a very large and comfortable zone to easily terrorize