Turkish election: Breakaway candidate Muharrem İnce announces withdrawal from presidential race
Breakaway candidate Muharrem İnce, chairman of the Memleket Party and former Republican People’s Party (CHP) member, has announced his withdrawal from Turkey’s presidential race. İnce’s formal withdrawal announcement comes after speculation on Wednesday (May 10) that he would leave the race. Popular among Gen-Z voters and opposition voters disillusioned with main opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, […]
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will challenge Erdoğan in the upcoming election
The opposition coalition has finally nominated its candidate for president less than 70 days from the election. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will challenge the 20-year rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in an election that promises to be the most consequential in recent Turkish history. The Nation Alliance Made up of the CHP, Democrat Party, DEVA Party, […]
Turkey’s opposition breaks up on Friday, makes up on Monday
Opposition coalition member and İYİ party chair Meral Akşener unceremoniously left the coalition designed to defeat President Erdoğan on Friday (March 3). After putting the coalition on blast for wanting to endorse CHP’s party boss Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for president, Akşener demanded that either Istanbul or Ankara’s CHP mayors be endorsed instead. The mayors met with […]
Erdoğan indicates May 14 as possible election date
During a Wednesday (January 18) address to fellow Justice and Development Party (AKP) members in Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan indicated May 14 as a likely date for Turkey’s upcoming presidential elections. Originally scheduled for June 18, 2023, the AKP has shown signs in recent weeks of moving the elections to an earlier date this spring, […]
This Week in Turkey (116): with Levent Köker on YSK’s reasoning for Istanbul election rerun decision
Public law professor Levent Köker evaluates the Supreme Election Board’s (YSK) reasoning for annulling the March 31 mayoral vote in Istanbul. Köker concludes that the discrepancies and logical inconsistencies present in the 250-page document are legally unacceptable, and that they will have a significant impact on Turkey’s free and fair election process that has been […]
This Week in Turkey (115): With Can Selçuki on June 23 Istanbul mayoral election re-run
Can Selçuki from Istanbul Economy Research comments on how Istanbulites are likely to vote in the upcoming June 23 re-do election in Istanbul.