Turkey's municipal elections of 31 March 2024, contrary to all predictions, represented a genuine political earthquake where the bloc linked to the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, received its first defeat since 2002. Erdogan's victory in the 2023 elections, despite all the hopes of the opposition, had been a source of demoralization and loss of interest in politics.
An opposition victory in March 31 municipal elections, including in Istanbul, could shake up Turkey's political scene in unpredictable ways, perhaps even descent into full-blown authoritarianism.
Turkey s pro-Kurdish party filed a dissenting opinion in parliament regarding approval of the protocol for Sweden s NATO application, echoing a similar stance it took in objecting to Finland s NATO membership last year. In connection with the approval
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