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On 26 July, Turkish citizens began voting in the first round of the first direct presidential elections in the history of the Turkish Republic. Voting began at Turkish embassies and at the forty-two polling stations set up at Turkish land crossings, harbors, and airports; it will continue until ..

How can the results of the recent municipal elections in Turkey be understood amidst the constantly changing political landscape: graft scandals, revolting judicial decisions, changing political alliances, and an ever-increasing polarization? It can be argued that only preliminary lessons can be..

[This report was published by the Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies on 13 March 2014.]

Introduction

The upcoming local elections in Turkey are the most significant in decades, with the inten..

In the month of November, there have been several important developments regarding the peace process in Turkey. First, Prime Minister Erdoğan announced a democratic package, which was supposed to be a step towards democratization and peace. Second, in its formal declarations at least, the Turkis..

AKP maharetini kaybediyor. İktisadi ve toplumsal alanda her şeyi alınır-satılır kılarken ve siyasi alanda her türlü değere el koyarken, kullandığı dil iflas ediyor. Toplumsal kesimler, AKP’nin dilinin örtüsünü kaldırarak, hakikati ifşa ediyor. 

AKP maharetini KAYBEDİYOR

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Those who wanted to march towards the Democratic Solution Tent were intercepted by gas bombs and water cannons. Yet you didn’t see them, although there were kids present in that march. You didn’t see them, because in fact you have been watching penguins every day for the past thirty years.

[The following letter was written by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).]

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Office of the Prime Minister
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[An October 2011 report on the so-called “KCK operations,” carried out in Turkey by Prime Minister Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party for the past two years, noted..

The collective imprisonment of political figures who are expressing the desires of the Kurdish people is an old reflex of Turkey’s state tradition. Collective arrests that started in 1959 with the imprisonment of forty-nine Kurdish intellectuals turned into collective executions in the 1990s and..

Turkey recently has witnessed a massive police operation against activists, advocates, academics, and publishers who are pro-Kurdish on the grounds of alleged links to the outlawed “Union of Communities in Kurdistan” (sometimes also referred to as the Kurdish Communities Union), known by its Kur..

The recent earthquake in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish province of Van not only caused loss of life and damage, it also exposed the country’s political and ethnic fault lines.

In the last two decades, there were ten earthquakes with a magnitude of six or more in Turkey. In 1999, two power..