The most likely challenger on June 24 is the CHP’s candidate Muharrem İnce who will have an uphill battle.
The answer is no. It is not only within Europe that defects in European liberal democracy are aiding the rise of rightwing populism.
The question remains whether the next elections will be free and fair. In light of Turkey’s recent political development, this is highly unlikely: the end of democracy sometimes comes not with a coup but with a vote.
The rise of authoritarianism in Turkey has gone hand in hand with a de-institutionalization, in favour of what many call the “one man regime”. How long can that last?
Elections do not equal democracy. Snap elections give opposition parties no time to recuperate, to groom candidates or to build a base of support.
Will the European adventure that has continued for years with both sides escalating the tension and turning their backs on each other, finally end?
In Turkey the Islamist right garners support in rural areas by promoting social welfare and subsidy programmes. The left needs to put farmers and workers at the centre of class-based struggle.
Turkey’s military offensive in Afrin is also an example of how refugees are instrumentalized to gain domestic support for foreign policy ambitions.
From the Counter-Terrorism Division in Ankara, Turkey... The story’s named by others, but filled by women who resist the war. We live in a story whose title reads ‘unidentified’.
Syrian ‘guests’ in Turkey have been used not only as political tools for foreign ambitions, but also for reinforcing the conservative and Islamist ideology promoted by Erdogan’s AKP.
The accusation of conspiracy within the State is not just a red herring, it is a strategy meant to turn American democracy against itself.
How can bully boys and aggressors label a resistance movement ‘terrorist’ when the whole question of Turkey’s accession to the EU turned around its democratic deficits?
