Turkey

Many Middle Eastern experts are increasingly focused on how the outcome of Turkey’s pivotal elections in May could alter the regional order. Turkish citizens will vote in presidential and legislative elections that might be pivotal in the country’s volatile national politics and ambition for regional prominence. At the same time, the May 14 twin elections could determine the fate of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been in power for more than two decades. Erdoğan and his party face…

In Turkey, the pre-election struggle of the main candidates for the presidency is in full swing. Despite the sharp nature of the confrontation between the main contenders in the presidential elections (from the ruling party Recep Erdoğan and from the opposition party Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu), the maturity of Turkish democracy and features of Turkish culture so far in general demonstrate the correct attitude of experienced politicians to each other. It so happens that the tension of the forthcoming elections is mostly connected, on the one hand, with the long period of ruling of the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Erdoğan during the last…

Many experts consider the current elections in Turkey as fateful. Depending on who wins – the incumbent president Erdoğan or the representative of the pro-Western opposition Kılıçdaroğlu – the vector of Turkey’s subsequent development will be determined. And this opinion corresponds to reality in the sense that the intensity of the confrontation between the main candidates for the highest post in the state is related not only to the topic of the struggle for power of the main political forces of Turkey, but also the enormous impact on the pre-election process from interested external forces…