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Analysis&Opinion

Erdogan can’t win runoff election without help from Turkey’s rudderless opposition

May 27, 2023

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm If it hadn't been for an inept election campaign and failure to prevent election fraud, Turkey’s rudderless...

Erdogan enjoyed an unjustified advantage in the elections: OSCE report

Turkey’s election board refuses to announce official election results due to allegations of fraud

May 26, 2023

Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has not yet announced the official results of the presidential and parliamentary elections...

United Nations says Turkey has become a cocaine hub under Erdogan’s rule

May 25, 2023

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In a damning report, the United Nations concluded that Turkey has increasingly become a hub for cocaine...

Erdoğan gov’t accuses Sweden of interfering in elections in Turkey

May 24, 2023

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The government of incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Sweden of interfering in elections in Turkey,...

Turkey’s largest warship has become Erdogan’s propaganda tool in the election campaign

A top bureaucrat admits neither drones nor aircraft can currently operate on flagship Anadolu, contradicting Erdogan’s election campaign rhetoric

May 23, 2023

Levent Kenez/Stockholm In an interview with a Turkish TV station on May 18, İsmail Demir, head of the Presidency of the...

A secret gov’t report targeting German foundations in Turkey resurfaced in 2023

May 22, 2023

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A secret report by the Turkish government concerning the activities of German nongovernmental organizations in Turkey has recently...

Erdoğan persecuted judicial council members who sided with prosecutors in probing illegal arms to jihadists

Erdogan enjoyed an unjustified advantage in the elections: OSCE report

May 19, 2023

Levent Kenez/Stockholm The joint observation mission from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary...

Turkey’s main opposition CHP serves to legitimize Erdoğan’s aggressive foreign policy

Opposition presidential candidate adopts ultranationalist rhetoric to beat Erdogan in the runoff

May 18, 2023

Levent Kenez/Stockholm Main opposition leader and presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu changed his rhetoric and campaign strategy after he failed to win...

New documents show Twitter took a position in favor of government before elections

May 17, 2023

Levent Kenez/Stockholm One day before the May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey, Twitter announced that access to accounts...

Turkey secretly arranged visit of North Korean general in charge of ballistic missile program