Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by AYDIN Uraz
Turkey’s municipal elections of 31 March 2024, contrary to all predictions, represented a genuine political earthquake where the bloc linked to the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, received its first defeat since 2002. Erdogan’s victory in the 2023 elections, despite all the hopes of (…)
, by AYDIN Uraz, KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway was recently in Istanbul and was able to interview Uraz Aydin, member of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Turkey (TIP) about the situation in Turkey following Erdogan’s better than expected success in last year’s presidential elections. Uraz was removed from his (…)
, by OZKAN Ozgur
Turkey walks a fine line between NATO commitments and Western alliances and its dependence on Russia for financial resources and trade.
From the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Turkey has performed a delicate balancing act, portraying itself as an ally to the warring sides while reaping (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, Petition / Sign-on Letter
The following statement is to denounce the unlawful prevention of Can Atalay from fulfilling his legislative duties in the National Assembly of Turkey. Despite his election as the Member of the Parliament to represent the Province of Hatay on the 14th of May 2023 General Elections, Can Atalay is (…)
, by BROOMFIELD Matt
After months of brinkmanship, NATO chiefs have announced that Sweden will be allowed to join the alliance. The deal rewards Turkish demands for Sweden’s collaboration in its anti-Kurdish repression — and makes a mockery of NATO’s purported stand for freedom.
Turkey will be dropping its (…)
, by LETSCH Constanze
For civil society and rights defenders, five more years of the Turkish president and his radical backers are a daunting prospect
On Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was declared the winner of Turkey’s presidential runoff elections. According to numbers reported by the state-owned Anadolu news (…)
, by SERT Deniz
The Republican People’s Party (CHP) decided to form a broader front with the intention of putting an end to Erdogan’s two-decade-long rule. In 2018, the Nation Alliance (Millet İttifakı), which promised a gradual transition from the Presidential system to a parliamentary system, in other words, (…)
, by AYDIN Uraz
Turkey’s President Erdogan came out ahead in the country’s presidential elections of 14 May 2023, which represented a kind of plebiscite to decide whether his autocratic regime would remain in place or not.
With 49.5% of the vote the AKP leader, in power for twenty years, is ahead of the (…)
, by COURT Mireille
All the polls predicted at least a strong lead on Sunday 14 May for Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, the candidate of the CHP. Eventually, it is Erdogan who won this large lead.
Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, the candidate of the CHP (social-democratic party whose emblematic figure is Kemal Atatûrk), had for some (…)
, by OLIVER Christian, POYRASLAR Elçin
The president is blaming LGBTQ+ people for undermining family values to distract from the ruling party’s failings — particularly on the economy.
ISTANBUL — To President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s LGBTQ+ community represents “deviant structures” and a “virus of heresy.”
In the run-up to (…)
, by GENÇ Kaya
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP, announced on 6 March that he would be running for president. He has the backing of thirteen other parties, though the opposition alliance came close to disintegrating as its right-leaning members asked if Kılıçdaroğlu, a (…)
Opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is looking like he might end the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the upcoming election.
Turkey’s general election on Sunday, May 14 will see voters cast their ballots for 600 members of its parliament and the country’s powerful presidency. This (…)
, by JOHNSON Daniel
Traveling anywhere in Turkey in recent weeks one is accosted by reminders of an election scheduled for May 14. The visages of smiling political leaders adorn billboards and banners everywhere. The most ubiquitous image, of course, is that of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose campaign motto (…)
, par JOHNSON Daniel
ON FEBRUARY 6, 2023,an earthquake with a magnitude 7.8 struck the southeastern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş. About nine hours later, a M 7.5 quake hit about ninety miles north. At the time of writing the quakes have killed close to 50,000 in Turkey and more than 7,200 in northwestern Syria. (…)
, by BAGWELL Stephen, KREUTZER Willow
When government responses to a natural disaster do not address the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls, women tend to lose trust in the institutions.
When natural disasters strike, women and girls tend to experience disproportionate challenges and heightened risks.
They are (…)
, by KURU Ahmet T.
The earthquake that struck Turkey on Feb. 6, 2023, is first and foremost a human tragedy, one that has taken the lives of at least 45,000 people to date.
The disaster also has major implications for the country’s economy – the financial loss from the damage is estimated to be US$84 billion – (…)
, by DAHER Joseph
The government’s inadequate response to the earthquake speaks to decades of mismanagement, corruption, and cronyism that could threaten Erogan’s career, as public outrage soars alongside the death toll, writes Joseph Daher.
More than a week after the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria, (…)
, by ÖZTÜRK Sanem
The two earthquakes of 6 February 2023, with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6, which struck south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria and Rojava 9 hours apart, were natural, undoubtedly. What happened before and after was certainly not.
On the seventh day of the disaster, as national and international (…)
, by Workers’ Party of Turkey (TIP)
It has been almost a week since the deadly earthquake that struck 10 provinces in Turkey. We, as the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP), have sent a short report about the situation in general as well as the political aspects of it. However, the situation is highly unstable and changing by the (…)
Our country faces one of the worst disasters in its history. The destruction caused by two great earthquakes on 6 February 2023 has a direct impact on ten cities and almost fifteen million people, which will last for a long time. As the Science Committee of the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP), we (…)
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