Stein on the Potential for a Coalition Government in Turkey

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Stein on the Potential for a Coalition Government in Turkey

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Jun 8, 2015

Stein on the Potential for a Coalition Government in Turkey

By Aaron Stein

Financial Times quotes Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Aaron Stein on the Turkish electorate’s rejection of a strong presidential system and the resultant uncertainty as the country faces a potential parliamentary coalition:

Turkey

In the News

Jun 8, 2015

Ricciardone on the Turkish Election

By Francis Ricciardone

Financial Times quotes Rafik Hariri Center Vice President and Director Francis Ricciardone on the outcome of the Turkish election, which ended President Erdogan’s ambitions for a powerful executive office:

Turkey

New Atlanticist

Jun 8, 2015

A ‘Readjustment’ in Turkey

By Sabine Freizer

“Turkey every couple of decades veers towards an extreme, and then there is a readjustment,” veteran Turkey watcher and International Crisis Group spokesman Hugh Pope told me for years. That readjustment came June 7, with Turkey’s parliamentary elections. After years of amassing more powers, the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its majority—and President […]

Turkey

New Atlanticist

Jun 8, 2015

Erdoğan Loses His Midas Touch

By Ross Wilson

The wheel of politics goes round and round. Turkish voters demonstrated this in the thumping they gave in parliamentary elections June 7 to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) that had governed the country for over a decade. The AKP did win a 41 percent plurality and will take about 255 seats in the Turkish […]

Turkey

In the News

Jun 8, 2015

Ricciardone on Turkey’s Election

By Francis Ricciardone

Reuters quotes Vice President and Rafik Hariri Center Director Francis J. Ricciardone on why Turkey’s Kurds are determined to push for peace after their historic vote:

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

MENASource

Jun 8, 2015

Is Turkey Marching Toward Early Elections?

By Aaron Stein

Over 50 million Turkish voters went to the polls on Sunday June 7 to cast their ballots for their preferred political parties. During the final days of the campaign, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) sharpened their political attacks on Turkey’s fourth largest political party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

Turkey

In the News

Jun 4, 2015

Stein on the Turkish Election

Bloomberg Business quotes Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Aaron Stein on the serious tensions over political identity that divide the Turkish people along religious lines:

Turkey

MENASource

Jun 2, 2015

Religious Kurds Key to Turkish Electoral Outcomes

By Aaron Stein

Just days before Turkish citizens head to the poll for the June 7 national election, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Turkey’s fourth largest party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) are competing for the hearts and minds of religiously minded Kurds.

Turkey

MENASource

May 26, 2015

Turkey’s Weakness in Iraq Tied to Weakness in Nujaifi

By Aaron Stein

The fall of Ramadi has prompted questions about the overarching US plan to degrade and defeat the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL). For neighboring Turkey, the plan remains deeply flawed, owing to the notion that ISIS’s defeat requires the toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

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MENASource

May 21, 2015

Can Turkey Compete with Iran in Iraq?

By Faysal Itani and Jeppe Sorenson

The United States in March extended its support to the Iraqi forces in Tikrit from reconnaissance to airstrikes, wisely predicted by the Iraqi president, in an attempt to hit two birds with one stone: defeating the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) in Tikrit and to halt Iranian political influence and prevent “sectarian improprieties” in Iraq’s […]

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Jeffrey Hovenier

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Mark Mowrey

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Elliot Ackerman

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