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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in his second term as president

Analysis

Can Recep Tayyip Erdoğan run for a third term as president?

The referendum that inflicted an executive presidency on Turkey means another term depends on who calls the election

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Aug 252020

Aug 242020

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Disney’s hold over the future of Turkish journalism

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Aug 042020

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The Muharrem İnce Party that no one is asking for

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Jun 042020

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The injustice wrought on Kurdish mayors

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Apr 222020

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How Erdoğan continues to struggle with Atatürk’s legacy

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Jan 022020

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A century later, Turkey is set to return to North Africa

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Nov 212019

Analysis

Yaşar Büyükanıt, the last Turkish general to threaten a coup

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How the HDP was purged in Turkish local government

It has taken barely 15 months for Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party to be stripped of most of its mayors elected in March 2019
How Turkish voting patterns have shifted in recent elections

See how the parties have competed for different voter groups since 2002
The parties’ 2018 manifestos

The main Turkish political parties have released their manifestos for the 24 June election. We compare their pledges in some policy areas here
Is the İyi Parti entitled run in the 2018 Turkish election?

Turkey’s new centre-right movement may fall foul of rules for recently-founded political parties

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Jul 192017

Explainers

The 2017 cabinet reshuffle

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