In Turkey, where pre-election voting surveys and polls are notoriously unreliable, there is no fool proof way of predicting the result. With the presidential and parliamentary elections just ten . . .
Turkey’s elections- no longer cut and dried
Soon after the snap elections were announced in April, I was at a seminar in London where we were asked to predict the likely outcome of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary vote. At that early . . .
President Erdoğan’s high-profile visit to London backfires
Contrary to what’s been said in the pro-government media in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s three-day official visit to the UK has turned out to be rather counterproductive. His hosts, . . .
Difficulties of court reporting in Turkey
The principle of open justice is central to the rule of law, and the media play a vital role by fairly and accurately reporting court proceedings to the public. In Turkey, at a time when confidence . . .
An opportunity Turkey’s opposition cannot afford to miss
If the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government had hoped to catch Turkey’s fragmented opposition on the hop by pushing the vote forward by eighteen months, it appears to be outwitted by its . . .