The loss of Morsi and Egypt.. Turkey should find a way to mend its...
Mohamed Morsi was the first democratically elected president of Egypt. His government was overthrown soon after his first year in office (June 30, 2012- July 3, 2013) by the military...
A warning for people who look askance at the quest for a new party:...
On one hand I closely follow the process leading to re-run of the mayoral election in Istanbul, on the other hand, I keep an eye...
TV debate is too risky for AK Party candidate.. A new political atmosphere is...
A candidate who enjoys an unprecedented media power behind him suddenly appears quite eager for a debate with his rival on screen despite the...
My post-convention sum up: What we have in the political arena today is the...
The latest traditional party convention of AK Party in the town of Kızılcahamam is just over. I hope that the convention was productive. MPs and leaders of local party organizations from...
Turkish lira gained value against dollar yesterday.. Why? Do you think we should be...
The American dollar, which gained value and increased to above 6 Turkish liras in parity after the Electoral Council’s decision to re-run the mayoral election...
May Gülen be the ‘mastermind’ of the coup attempt? Whether he is or not,...
It was at a time that only one television channel yet (and it was only as subtitles) had announced, “This is a Parallel Organization...
The trial balloon to lower election threshold.. AK Party , is everything alright?
Foreigners call it ‘trial balloon’. Although the method is used by companies and institutions in diverse fields, it is often put to use by politicians. If a...
Trump’s letter to Erdoğan.. When and why was it written? Do we know answers...
Donald Trump’s style of correspondence in his letter to President Tayyip Erdoğan has generally been seen as disrespectful, not only in Turkey but in the USA too, where the letter baffled...
OMG.. The Council caused the re-run, has created a new justification for annulment of...
AK Party’s spokespeople like very much using the excuse "Our votes were stolen” for the Supreme Electoral Council’s decision to re-run the mayoral election in Istanbul,...
I remember a movie I know President Erdoğan watched, a movie he seems to...
While closely following the Turkish cross-border operation in Syria, I really wonder if these days Tayyip Erdoğan would remember the movie ‘Thirteen Days’ that he had watched long before...