Erdogan Is Trying to Divide and Conquer Turkey’s Opposition

Inside Turkey’s Executive Coup | by Umut Özkırımlı - Project Syndicate

It is too soon to tell whether the current wave of popular anger and disillusionment in Turkey will evolve into a coherent movement capable of mounting a credible opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. But one thing should be obvious to the main opposition party: When the game is rigged, the only hope is to flip the board.

Erdogan’s latest power move could backfire

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has never been so weak – nor so strong. At home, he is facing the most potent challenge to his power since an armed coup in 2016, in the form of a serious electoral challenger whom he has just jailed, causing massive protests and unsettling the money markets. Internationally, though,

Turkey’s Kurdish peace talks: A genuine effort or Erdoğan’s power play?

Erdoğan is arguably negotiating with the Kurds mainly as a means of securing Kurdish parliamentarians’ votes to extend his rule as president Originally published on Global VoicesAbdullah Öcalan and members of the Kurdish DEM Party call on the PKK to disarm and disband. Screenshot from Twitter. Fair use. After nearly half a century of fighting, Turkey’s Kurdish rebels are ready to bring their insurgency to an end. If Turkish President Recep Tayyi…

Erdogan Is Trying to Divide and Conquer Turkey’s Opposition

By arresting his chief rival and splitting the left, Turkey’s president is seeking to create a pliant and palatable CHP that ensures the AKP’s long-term…

The arrest of Istanbul's mayor marks a new and worrying chapter in the country's anti-democratic escalation and the impacts of the protests against the measure are still uncertain. The arrest of the mayor of Istanbul last week, a few days before he was officially nominated as the presidential candidate of Turkey's main opposition acronym, the Republican People's Party (CHP), marks a new and worrying chapter in the anti-democratic escalation of P…