Turkish local elections 2019

Many Turks are outraged over the nullification of Istanbul’s election results on March 31st. The oppression of dissent and violence  going into the rerun could backfire on Erdogan and his [...]

After nearly three weeks of disputes and recounts, following local elections on March 31, the CHP’s Ekrem Imamoglu was declared Istanbul mayor. But not for long. On Monday 6, the sound of [...]

The results of Turkey’s local elections at the end of are still reverberating throughout the country and as Conn Hallinan writes, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan finds himself in the [...]

Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP, won Ankara and hotly contested Istanbul in the recent local elections. This is a big deal for the ruling AKP and party elites are currently pointing [...]

Having finally completed all the necessary recount protocols and with all votes tallied,  Turkish opposition figure Ekrem İmamoğlu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) confirmed his victory in [...]

“They built themselves palaces with the people’s money.” Profligacy, excessive luxury and perks – all at the expense of the people they, in theory, should have been serving. This was what [...]

An overview from Al Monitor of what’s been happening in Turkey over the last week  – Putin is giving Erdoğan the empathy the Turkish leader isn’t getting from Washington. Published on [...]

By Nurettin Kurt A look at the western media’s responses to Turkey’s local elections on March 31, for which some results are still being counted, a full seven days after the event, [...]