A Coalition or an Early Election?

It has been almost a week since the elections in Turkey and there are still debates about possible scenarios in the next phase.

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A Coalition or an Early Election
This is not the End of the AK Party'

‘This is not the End of the AK Party'

In a televised debate broadcast by France 24 after last Sunday’s election contest in Turkey, SETA Deputy Director Muhittin Ataman reminded that the AK Party gained 16 percent more votes than the main opposition.

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Since the AK Party has failed to secure majority in Parliament allowing the party to form a single-party government, various coalition scenarios are on the table now to determine Turkey's future politics.

The coming two weeks will demonstrate the intricacies and difficulties of forming a coalition and the most likely scenario seems to be going to early elections in the next two months.

A new push in Turkey's democratization and development drive will await us on June 8 so that the accumulated legacy of the last decade is not wasted.

There will be no major impact on the relations between Turkey and Europe because Turkey will still be a democratic country with a democratically elected leader.

The Illegal Structure Muddied the Political Arena

Referring to the declared-illegal Gülen organization, SETA-İstanbul General Coordinator Fahrettin Altun asserts that the Illegal Structure muddies the political arena by manipulations.

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The Illegal Structure Muddied the Political Arena
Countdown to Stability

Countdown to Stability

In Turkey's political history, coalition governments have been marred by internal wrangling, turf wars, failures in governance, acute corruption and so forth.

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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."

Political and bureaucratic actors should look for new ways to create synergies with think tanks, universities and civil intellectual initiatives such as the A20 to assure a better future for the "New Turkey in the New World."

As the HDP lacks necessary experience to focus on religion and popular demands in their election campaigns, it is impossible for the Kurdish political movement to compete with the AK Party at the national level

The government is doing its best to prevent unlawful efforts within the judiciary, yet the Gülen Movement seems interested in casting a shadow over the performance of Turkish democracy at the international level.

In this report, we provide an overview of the situation of refugees in Turkey and the difficulties that Turkey is facing in handling such a major crisis alongside of its Southern border.

In harshly criticizing the foreign policy implemented by the ruling AK Party, the CHP assumes that Turkey can simply avoid problems around itself while pledging to bring peace to a competitive and chaotic region

In modern democratic politics, one of the most effective instruments of attracting electoral support is extending pledges for better macroeconomic governance and improvement of social welfare.

Ahead of the June 7 elections, the AK Party introduced a 350-page vision document reminding voters that the country, having broken the chains of guardianship, needs to prepare for ‘the second half'

As the Middle East continues to be dominated by age-old rivalries, unresolved conflicts and protracted ethno-sectarian traumas, the epicenter of global hegemonic competition has shifted to the Asia-Pacific, where China and the U.S. are involved in a multipronged struggle for political, economic and geostrategic domination.

Turkey seeks to find a way out of sectarian clashes to mobilize support against ongoing attempts to divide the Islamic world amid conflicts in the Middle East

Although some extreme groups try to create a fake chaos, Turkey is resilient in overcoming systemic shocks.

This book provides a synopsis of the past four years of U.S. policy in Syria. It brings together the major turning points of this policy since the beginning of the Arab Spring.