‘What a table it was indeed’
Recent gatherings around two tables, one in Ankara and the other in Moscow, bring to mind a line from a famous Turkish poem: 'What a table it was indeed'
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Turkish opposition in search of 'grand coalition'
The leaders of Turkey’s six opposition parties will hold their first roundtable meeting on Feb. 12. Having agreed to the need for an "augmented" parliamentary system, they had been facing criticism over their seeming fragmentation and lack of a common political agenda.
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The main opposition's possible ambitious policy proposal on the Kurdish question would mean direct disunity among the opposition bloc's parties
The Turkish opposition’s waywardness alarms its mentors, who warn that the election is 'theirs to lose.'
The leaders of DEVA and the GP have already taken some steps. They are attempting to be more active and to generate some level of legitimacy for their movements.
It is no secret that the CHP, which constantly attempts to reach out to the political right, has failed to win over conservatives to date. The political engineers cannot seem to wrap their heads around the nature of religious conservative voters, however hard they may try.
What's Turkey’s political agenda in 2022?
The opposition will not stop demanding an early election in 2022, while the current government will want to wait until the country's new economic model starts yielding results.
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Turkish opposition and 2023 elections discourse
Turkey’s main opposition leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, continues to demand an early election.
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Turkey's opposition bloc has yet to come to an agreement on a joint road map for the 2023 elections, and their chances to construct one seem to be quite low
The main opposition leader keeps making mistake after mistake, miscalculation after miscalculation
Turkey’s political opposition has been saying the same thing, over and over again, since the 2019 municipal elections: 'The country is not being governed properly. Let us hold early elections.'
The ruling AK Party is still miles ahead of the main opposition leader's new, reactionary discourse
With a campaign transforming Turkey and itself, the ruling party is likely to leave the Opposition behind in the campaign race
The main opposition leader is attempting to make intra-party and alliance changes. However, it seems he will need more than just that
The conservative opposition party is on the brink of a major political choice. Either way, it will impact both the party and the upcoming 2023 elections as well
CHP’s most recent actions regarding national security and sovereignty fuel mounting criticism.
With Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's recent moves, the IP's agenda to become Turkey’s top center-right party is unlikely to be achieved
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Good Party (IP) recently signaled that they could walk back on their rapprochement with the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
The year 2023 has symbolic significance for the people of Turkey. The most crucial questions are where have we reached after 100 years and what the next century holds for us.
As Turkey prepares to launch a new military operation against YPG militants in northern Syria, the CHP leadership will find it difficult to explain why it opposed the authorization bill.
The ambassadors chose the wrong path and attempted to interfere in Turkish domestic affairs. This is why Ankara's stance is right
