Erdogan blasts former friends as traitors while word of new rival spreads
Source:al Monitor Date:04Mar2019
Indeed, Turkish press is giving more space to rumors of a new party by erstwhile allies of Erdogan, as this excellent article by Mrs Amberin Zaman explains. The challengers may be waiting for
Turkish economic woes seen weighing on Erdogan party in elections
Source:Reuters Date:04Mar2019
AKP officials said polls carried out for the party show its support at 36.8-38 percent, with its nationalist MHP allies on 10.5-11 percent. In parliamentary elections last year, Erdogan’s party
Turkey’s Erdogan Is Due for Another Rebuke
Source:Foreign Policy in Focus Date:16Feb2019
I can’t tell you how municipal elections will turn out, because there are very few polls. It seems to me, AKP is censoring them. But, this article explains very succintly my theory of how
Turkey’s Kurds are sacrificing election wins but to what end?
Source:Arab Weekly Date:03Feb2019
Still, given that the race is neck and neck in the big cities and in western Turkey, the opposition is anxious to attract HDP voters. If the main, so-called greater municipalities are won by
Challenges for AK Party to overcome in March elections
Source:Daily Sabah Date:02Feb2019
We can say that three groups need to be “persuaded” for the upcoming local elections. The first is young voters voting for the first time who have grown up seeing no other party but
Economic woes set to seal fate of Turkey’s local polls
Source:al Monitor Date:29Jan2019
Quotes two polls, one not made public in Turkey Turkey’s economic turmoil, fueled by a currency crisis amid unprecedented tensions with the United States last summer, has become the No. 1 concern
Turkey’s election watchdog denies claims over ghost voters for local polls
Source:Hurriyet Daily News Date:22Jan2019
Turkey’s High Election Board responded to allegations of voter registration fraud: “Let me give you an example. The number of frozen registration of electorates was only 736 in the
Opposition reports false voter registrations in Turkey
Source:Deutsche Welle Date:18Jan2019
False registration is a sign of how desperate AKP is, which falling behind in polls across the board: More than 200 voters live in the same apartment in Bingol, a city in eastern Anatolia.
HDP set to take more districts in March vote
Source:Ahval News Date:02Jan2019
Amidst the paucity of national polls, we report what we can According to a survey Rawest, a polling firm that focuses on Turkey’s east and southeast, conducted before the announcement of
A Flood of Refugees Tests Turkey’s Tolerance
Source:Bloomberg Date:13Dec2018
An economic decline that makes what few jobs there are harder to come by and erodes the spending power of those who are in work is fanning anger at government policy under President Recep Tayyip