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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How to Save Turkish Democracy
...that the presidential election in May would be close but that opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu would emerge victorious. Read this article by Halil Karaveli in The Foreign Affairs....