Researching authoritarian politics| Freelance writer| Focus on Turkey and post-Soviet countries | Previously PhD at Coventry| Views my own.
Dr Balki Begum Bayhan
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Bilgi University, one of Turkey's first private universities, which opened in the late 1990s, was shut down today by a presidential decree with no explanation. It was always a pleasure to visit there, fantastic students and faculty. This really hits hard for many.
Students march to protest the closure of Bilgi University after the regime shut it down with a presidential decree
Erdogan is not immortal, so the damage being done to the Turkish state and economy to keep him in power now risk severely weakening Turkey after he is gone.
Comparisons with Russia's trajectory towards an unstable post-Putin era look more plausible than a few years ago
Following the court decision, crowds gather outside CHP headquarters chanting “Traitor Kemal”
Large crowds remain gathered outside of the CHP headquarters.
“There is no salvation alone, either all of us together or none of us!"
Scenes from Ankara. Police storm the CHP headquarters to remove Özgür Özel and his supporters from the building, following the court decision stripping him of the party leadership.
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Özgür Özel’s statement from tonight:
"I will stay in this building, in my office, and I won't go anywhere until the CHP members, not the AKP's judicial arms, decide who will manage the CHP”
Further blow to Turkish democracy. Courts (highly co-opted by Erdogan) have removed Özgür Özel, current leader of the main opposition party CHP, ordering former leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to take over. During his 13 year tenure, Kılıçdaroğlu oversaw repeated electoral defeats against Erdoğan’s AKP
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Large crowds remain gathered outside of the CHP headquarters.
“There is no salvation alone, either all of us together or none of us!"
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The Scottish Labour leader has said Starmer’s problems are casting a shadow over his Scottish election hopes – but is that really true?
