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What happened in Turkey’s election and what is next?

The first round of Turkey’s presidential election has come and gone, and the country is now four days into an intense 14-day stretch of campaigning before the runoff round on May 28. In Sunday’s contest, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan narrowly missed a first round victory with 49.25% of the vote. He was trailed by […]

Mass arrests in Turkey target Kurdish politicians, journalists, lawyers, and artists

Mass arrests this morning (April 25) in Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakır were carried out by local police, targeting members of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP). Diyarbakır is among the largest cities in southeastern Anatolia, and is known as a cultural capital for the region’s ethnic Kurdish minority. In the operations that targeted politicians, journalists, […]

Selahattin Demirtaş’s interview with Medyascope from Edirne Prison: “Change has begun in Turkey, now in order to build anew it is time for powers to come together”

Translated by Leo Kendrick Former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been imprisoned in Edirne for five years, answered Medyascope‘s questions through his lawyers. “Change has begun in Turkey. Both the HDP and the Kurds are the pioneers and parts of this change,” Demirtaş said, adding, “Everyone should abandon thinking and doing politics according […]

Authoritarianism and strong men in power: Interview with Gilbert Achcar

Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations, at SOAS, University of London, speaks to Medyascope.Tv‘s Işın Eliçin on Donald Trump’s election, on the global rise of far-right, on the latest developments in Turkey and its aspirations to become a big brother for the region and its people, on Kurds, on Syria & Egypt […]