Search results for: Kemal Kaya
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If the opposition beats Erdogan, Sweden’s NATO problem is over.
...A Social Democrat may put an end to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s twenty-year rule. The other week, Kemal Kilicdaroglu was named as a presidential candidate by one of the two...
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The Crackdown on HDP: Sustaining Authoritarianism with Ethnic Polarization
...the CHP fears that siding with HDP would invite punitive measures from the AKP-MHP regime. Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the MHP, has called for the prosecution of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu,...
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Turkey’s election reveals the durability of nationalism
...for the opposition to reconstitute itself. For that to happen, Ince will need to challenge CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu for the party’s chairmanship. This election has once again underlined how...
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Turkey’s Emergency Election: The Primacy of Raison d’etat
...a united opposition front with former president Abdullah Gül as its presidential candidate, which put “regime change” within reach. However, the bid was unsuccessful. CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and the...
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Turkey’s Fractured State
...The Turkish military is known to be a stronghold of Kemalism, the secularist and nationalist ideology of the founder of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. So when the Islamic conservative...
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Post-Putsch Narratives and Turkey’s Curious Coup
...of Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938), who founded the modern Turkish Republic in 1923. Although they initially continued, by the time Özkök retired in August 2006, the vetting procedures had been relaxed...
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Erdoğan’s Looming Downfall
...The year 2013 was supposed to be momentous for Turkey’s strongman, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Having established himself as the single most powerful Turkish politician since Kemal Atatürk,...