Search results for: Kemal Kaya
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The Rise and Rise of the Turkish Right
...imprisonments of elected Kurdish politicians and nominated ultranationalists, among them Mansur Yavas, the mayor-elect in Ankara, the national capital. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the C.H.P. leader, has said that he “loves” the...
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Can Turkey Change?
...leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has made a point of emphasizing the need to speak to “the opposite neighborhood,” but his Alevi identity has worked against him; Alevis are heterodox Muslims that...
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Will the Kurdish Question Secure Erdoğan’s Re-election?
...the candidate of the Islamist Felicity Party has a support around 2 percent. The CHP is beholden to its founder and first leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s vision of a unitary,...
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Walking for Justice: The Path Forward for Turkey’s Opposition
...With his call for justice, which is a concept and a call that resonates among vast swathes of the population, CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has positioned himself as...
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Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict: 2015-Present
...no separate nation-state emerged for the Kurds. Kemal Atatürk’s vision of a unitary Turkish national state laid the foundation for the so-called “Kurdish question” which remains one of the most...
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The “Logic” of Turkey’s Repression
...its name, which means republic in Turkish, to a suggestion that was made to its founding editor by Kemal Atatürk, the first president of the country. The editors who have...
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Turkey is Yet to “Conquer” its History
...when he addressed the CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with the words “You are an Alevi, I am a Sunni, say that openly,” and when he said that Selahattin Demirtaş, the...
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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,...