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“Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government is used to being praised by foreign observers, media and international bodies, but the situation seems to be changing. An article in the latest issue of the weekly Economist, which labels Erdoğan as ’autocratic’ triggers a debate, as the PM criticizes foreign media.” It was always a [...]
Liberals are “fed up” with the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because they claim he is not living up to campaign promises and is using discouraging rhetoric regarding the Kurdish population. They feel that when Erdogan was elected, he was promising reform and the most pivotal point was changing relations between the government and [...]
The ruling political party in Turkey, AKP, has received significant criticism from the liberals and Islamist media recently, as the party has shifted from its original reformist line of handling critical political issues. Notable Turkish politicians and academics have seen this shift to a status quo stance largely the result of recent PKK attacks and [...]
Recently the Prime Minister of Turkey, has been lobbying in Van, an eastern region in Turkey. Van, being a city with prominent Kurdish population, has not greeted Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a hospitable manner. He was advised to wear a bullet proof vest and have a convoy of four cars, which is an unusual number [...]
