Six relatively important Turkish opposition parties were gathering around a table that used to be called the “table for six.” The steering powers of this table were Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, and Meral Aksener, the leader of the Good Party who has previously served as interior minister. Aksener has nationalistic roots from
Israeli President Isaac Herzog last week paid a two-day visit to Turkey in an effort to revive bilateral relations, which have remained dormant for more than a decade. There was nothing that prevented Turkey taking such a step earlier. Bilateral relations between Turkey and Israel will be relatively easy to salvage if goodwill prevails on both sides, but it will be more
ANKARA, Turkey The leaders of six opposition parties in Turkey pledged on Monday to bring back parliamentary democracy and scrap the executive presidential system that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan introduced three years ago.
ANKARA, Turkey The leaders of six opposition parties in Turkey pledged on Monday to bring back parliamentary democracy and scrap the executive presidential system that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan introduced three years ago.
The jury’s out on whether a pledge by Turkey’s six opposition parties to bring back the parliamentary system is an agreement on the lowest common denominator or a historical pact that would unseat Erdogan.