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Meral Akşener: the Erdoğan rival who won’t stand against him
If Meral Akşener ever achieves her self-declared dream of becoming Turkey’s next prime minister, she would not be the first woman to hold that office – but she would certainly be the first to reach it...
View ArticleElection podcast #1: A colossal backwards step for women
Are women individuals or just a part of a family? That’s the question that Islamist leader Fatih Erbakan brings to the table. He’s now an ally of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. But will he help the president’s...
View ArticleElection podcast #2: The proud man who wants to be president
Critics of Muharrem İnce say he persistence in standing as a candidate for president – even though there is little evidence he can win – will split the anti-Erdoğan vote and gift Turkey’s president a...
View ArticleElection podcast #3: Is Turkey’s oldest nationalist party in trouble?
MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, perhaps the only Turkish politician who doesn’t understand how threads work on Twitter, announces in a series of tweets that his party will not run a joint list with Recep...
View ArticleElection podcast #4: Three is a magic number
Turkey’s election authorities are due to rule today, Thursday 30 March, on opposition objections to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s bid for a third term. The outcome is not really in doubt, but it’s worth...
View ArticleElection podcast #5: The lady’s not for turning
Meral Akşener is typically defiant after gunshots are fired at the headquarters of her İYİ Party in Istanbul. But violence of this sort is not uncommon between rival Turkish nationalist factions....
View ArticleElection podcast #6: Confidence in nationalist numbers
The hard-right MHP becomes the first party to announce their 600 candidates for parliament. Is it a sign of confidence, or bravado? And with men making up the vast majority of the list, Michael also...
View ArticleElection podcast #7: Understanding the ’other’ opposition
When talking about Turkey’s opposition parties, most analysts are guilty of referring only to the centrist movement led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. But leftist parties led by the pro-Kurdish HDP took six...
View ArticleElection podcast #8: Erdoğan’s health
The Turkish president fell ill during a live TV interview this week and declared he had a mild stomach bug – but he’s since cancelled two days of in-person engagements. It’s two-and-a-half weeks before...
View ArticleLIVE: Turkey decides between Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu
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