Is Turkey Marching Toward Early Elections?

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Is Turkey Marching Toward Early Elections?

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Is Turkey Marching Toward Early Elections?

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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).

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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:

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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.

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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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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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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, May 13, 2015

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May 15, 2015

Turkish Leaders Make Bold Statements at NATO Meeting

By Jorge Benitez

NATO foreign ministers concluded their meeting in Antalya, Turkey on May 14. This gathering was the first time since Berlin in 2011 that NATO foreign ministers met in a city other than Brussels.

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MENASource

May 15, 2015

Turkish Leaders Make Bold Statements at NATO Meeting

By Jorge Benitez

NATO foreign ministers concluded their meeting in Antalya, Turkey on May 14. This gathering was the first time since Berlin in 2011 that NATO foreign ministers met in a city other than Brussels.

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MENASource

May 15, 2015

Turkey May Acknowledge the Past, But Not Yet

By Piotr Zalewski

Only a decade earlier, it would have been an unimaginable sight. On April 24, more than a thousand people crowded Istanbul’s biggest pedestrian street to hold a vigil commemorating the centenary of the 1915 massacres of 600,000 to 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians.

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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, May 13, 2015

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May 14, 2015

Turkey Will Lead NATO Spearhead Force in 2021

By Sevil Erkuş, Hurriyet Daily News

NATO has welcomed Turkey’s offer to assume the responsibility of forming a spearhead unit as part of the alliance’s high readiness force in 2021.

NATO Security & Defense

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May 13, 2015

Turkey’s Role in a Shifting Syria

By Aaron Stein

In recent weeks, a Turkish backed umbrella group dubbed Jaysh al-Fateh has taken control of Idlib, prompting speculation that the group’s recent advance could mark a turning point in the war.

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