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Investor Exodus Sees Turkish Finance Hub Open Half Empty
Source:Bloomberg Date:18Apr2023
The Istanbul Finance Center offers 1.4 million square meters of office space and is pitched by Erdogan’s inner circle as a future hub for finance in the region. To critics, the inauguration is
2023’s most important election: Turkey
Source:Politico Date:17Apr2023
It falls 100 years after the foundation of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s secular republic and, if Erdoğan wins, he will be empowered to put even more of his stamp on the trajectory of a geostrategic
Turkish Minute: Int’l press organizations call on Turkey to stop punishing critical reporting ahead of elections
Source:Turkish minute Date:16Apr2023
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom along with 19 other press freedom, freedom of expression and human rights organizations has called on Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and
Fehim Taştekin: Turkey’s opposition foreign policy promises gradual departure from Erdogan’s
Source:Al Monitor Date:15Apr2023
The Foreign Ministry — which has lost much influence, with foreign policy becoming increasingly personalized — will regain its institutional weight in policy- and decision-making, the document
‘Kurds will be decisive’: Erdoğan opponent piles on Turkey election pressure from prison
Source:Financial Times Date:06Apr2023
Selahattin Demirtaş, who led the leftwing Peoples’ Democratic party (HDP), Turkey’s third-biggest political group, before he was jailed in 2016 on charges of supporting terrorism, said a unified
Ian Bremmer: Erdogan’s Political Reign Has Never Been on Shakier Footing
Source:TIME Date:02Apr2023
To have a shot at beating Erdogan, Kilicdaroglu needs to win over the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and its left-wing Labor and Freedom Alliance—the election’s kingmakers—without
Salim Cevik: Obstacles to a Turkey-Syria Reconciliation
Source:Arab Center Date:30Mar2023
Erdoğan hopes that by reconciling with Assad he can take away one of the opposition’s main talking points. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the joint
Prof Daron Acemoglu: To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy
Source:Project Syndicate Date:29Mar2023
But even if a coalition of opposition parties can win, replacing the government will not fix Turkey’s problems. The country’s institutions need to be rebuilt, and that process cannot be completed
Ahead of a critical election Turkey’s economy is running on borrowed time
Source:The Economist Date:27Mar2023
The poor state of the economy, compounded by the impact of the earthquakes that killed over 50,000 people in the country’s south in early February, has darkened Mr Erdogan’s election prospects.
‘It’s 50-50’: Erdoğan risks defeat in Turkey’s knife-edge election
Source:Politico Date:24Mar2023
For years, the president’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has exuded confidence ahead of elections — and justifiably so. In an almost uninterrupted sequence, Erdoğan has won two