Turkey
Turkey: Solidarity with the HDP!
Dilara Lorin, GAM Infomail 1144, Berlin, 4 April 2021 Wed, 07/04/2021 - 15:16The ban on the only left-wing opposition party in the Turkish parliament, the HDP (Halkların Demokratik Partisi, Peoples' Democratic Party), was rejected once again by the Constitutional Court on 31 M Read more...
Turkey: Economy at the cliff edge
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 231, September 2018 Mon, 27/08/2018 - 09:07Writing in the Guardian at the beginning of June, Kenneth Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard, posed an important question: "Are the brewing exchange rate and debt crises in Argentina and Turk Read more...
Turkey: Elections extend Erdogan's power
Svenja Spunck Wed, 27/06/2018 - 13:19The headline results of Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections are that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the presidential election and the alliance of his "Party for Justice and Development", A Read more...
Turkish election - a choice between Erdogan and a nationalist opposition
Svenja Spunck, Neue Internationale No 229, Berlin, June 2018 Thu, 21/06/2018 - 09:52There was already much to suggest that the AKP (Adalet ve Kalkıma Partisi, "Party for Justice and Recovery/Development") and MHP (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, "Party of the Nationalist Movement") would Read more...
Turkey's offensive against Afrin - a risk too far?
Svenja Spunck, GAM Infomail 983 Thu, 01/02/2018 - 19:53The autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava in northern Syria is as much a thorn in the side of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government as the pro-Kurdish party, the HDP, in Turkey itself. Read more...
Turkey: One year of Erdogan's counter-coup
Svenja Spunck, GAM Infomail 954 Tue, 25/07/2017 - 11:19Last July there were two coups in Turkey, one failed, one succeeded. Read more...
Turkey: Erdogan declares himself victor
Svenja Spunck, GAM Infomail 939, Berlin Sat, 22/04/2017 - 16:38It was a tight race between the Evet (Yes) and the Hayir (No) camp in Turkey on the evening of 16 April. Read more...
Turkey: No to constitutional change!
Svenja Spunck, Neue Internationale No 216 Sat, 18/02/2017 - 11:41In his struggle for absolute power, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing forward his attacks on the opposition. Read more...
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