Turkey has quietly initiated policy actions to further its interests and address the power vacuum in Niger against the backdrop of a military coup that has intensified anti-Western sentiment within the country, compounded by economic and financial
Since Erdoğan adopted a nationalist and militarist approach to reverse the results of the June 2015 elections, the Kurdish political movement has faced immense pressure. The line between the PKK and other non-violent political actors has blurred in the eyes of the elites in Ankara. Leaders and officials of the pro-Kurdish HDP have been arrested and the party has been demonized in the media. This paper aims to understand the motivation behind Erdoğan’s approach to the Kurdish question and explore the potential implications for the upcoming elections in June 2023.
After 20 years of rule by the Justice and Development Party, has the influence of the armed forces, who used to intervene directly in running the country, disappeared? The harassment of its former and current personnel indicates that the government’s confidence in the army is far from absolute. When the Justice and Development Party (AKP) won early parliamentary elections in 2002, the arrival in power of this new faction, self-identifying as conservative and democratic, seemed at the time (.)