President Recep Tayyip Erdogan beat back the greatest political challenge of his career on Sunday, securing victory in a presidential runoff that granted five more years to a mercurial leader… Read more »
It was a tense and confusing night after election polls closed in Turkey yesterday, The Guardian’s Constanze Letsch writes. The official result is still unclear, but a runoff between the president,… Read more »
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, main challenger of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, said on Friday his party has concrete evidence of Russia’s responsibility for the release of “deep fake” online content ahead of… Read more »
The results of the presidential and parliamentary vote on May 14 will have profound consequences—not only for Turkish democracy, but for the geopolitics of the Middle East, Europe, and the… Read more »
A Turkish court has convicted Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the president of the Turkish Medical Association and a renowned human rights activist, of disseminating “terrorist propaganda” in a trial seen by… Read more »
Does the West still serve as the point of reference for Turkey’s domestic transformation? This has historically (over the past two centuries) been the case, with the West/Europe serving as… Read more »
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian populism has lost its magic, notes Soner Cagaptay, a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of A Sultan… Read more »