Geopolitics
Cihan Tugal – Erdoğan’s Syria?
Turkey has clearly won a geopolitical victory, but fantasies about a Turkish takeover are overblown. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Erdogan
EU politics
Al Jazeera: Turkey’s Erdogan defies pressure over Sweden’s NATO application
Erdogan continues to play hardball even after his election victory. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Reuters: Lira plunges more than 7% as Turkey edges towards free market
Erdogan seems to be responding to his election victory by retreating towards more ‘orthodox’ macroeconomic policies. Read the article HERE.
National Politics
Cihan Tuğal: Erdoğan’s Resilience
Erdoğan was re-elected in the Turkish presidential run-off because of his opponent’s “limp and uninspiring programme”, which sought to return Turkey to a past that is gone. In New Left Review’s Sidecar. Read the article […]
National Politics
Conor Gallagher: What does Erdogan’s re-election mean for the new cold war?
The Turkish President won the election run-off on Sunday and now the US and EU will have to work out what to do with Nato’s disobedient member. Cross-posted from Other News Turkish President Recep Tayyip […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – Our defeat in context: Greece’s Erdogan-isation is almost complete
Greek voters didn’t want to hear the truth: that the Greek state and private sector is more bankrupt than ever Cross-posted from Yanis Varoufakis’ blog The people spoke. Unlike in 2019, when MeRA25 won nine […]
National Politics
Salih Yusan: Turkey’s presidential election – how Erdoğan defied the polls to head into runoff as favourite
Analysis of why President Erdoğan did better than polls predicted in the first round, and why the opposition leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, underperformed. Cross-posted from The Conversation Europe Salih Yusan is an expert on Turkish politics […]
EU politics
Devriş Çimen: In Turkey, the Fight for Democracy Isn’t Over
Turkey’s elections on Sunday brought incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the cusp of another term in office. But he now faces a runoff vote, in which prodemocratic and Kurdish forces can still inflict a historic […]
National Politics
Yunus Yener, T. Sabri Öncü: The Facts of Earthquakes in Turkey
As Turkey’s 14 May election approaches, the earthquake disasters have highlighted the failures of the AKP government. Yunus Yener (yunus.yener@mmo.org.tr) is the President of the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers of Turkey. T. Sabri Öncü (sabri.oncu@gmail.com) is […]
EU politics
Devriş Çimen: Turkey’s election is about democracy itself
Turkey’s 14 May election could be a significant turning point. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.