Justice and Development Party (AKP)

Turkey condemned to learning the hard way

The international credit ratings agency Moody’s said in statement released on Aug. 15 that the election of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as president “is unlikely to resolve Turkey’s key economic and institutional credit challenges because of ongoing domestic political tension and uncertainty that will prevail at least through the next parliamentary elections.”

The temptation of ideology

If you are an observer of Turkish foreign policy, do yourself a favor and read the long interview in yesterday’s Hürriyet Daily News with Ambassador Murat Özçelik. He was Turkey’s special representative in Iraq from 2007 to 2011 and then served as an ambassador to Baghdad.

Is Babacan staying or going?

Nobody can say we had a relaxed summer this year.

After the presidential election, we now have the snap Justice and Development Party (AKP) convention on Aug. 27 when the new leader and the prime minister will be elected. We will continue in the same tense tempo with another snap congress decision from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP).

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