The current account deficit in 2023 is expected to be 4.4% of Turkey's gross domestic product (GDP), the median showed, compared to a government forecast of 2.5%. The deficit was seen at 3.4% in 2024 and 2.5% in 2025, compared to government prediction...
Public turnout in recent elections has been over 80% and the importance of this election may see that figure rise, as more women come forward to vote. A sophisticated young Turkish graduate from Ankara now working in Mardin told me how impressed she was by the non-discriminatory policies of ...
election of AKP increased public employment of religious individuals, relative to secular citizens, in age cohorts that joined the labor market after AKP came to power in 2002. We use pooled cross-sectional individual-level data from the Konda survey from 2012 to 2018—that is, during AKP’...
“the day before a critical election in turkey, twitter appears to be acquiescing to the demands of the country’s autocratic ruler, erdogan, and is censoring speech on the platform,” tweeted california congressman adam schiff in response to the news. “given twitter’s total lack of...
So how will the populist president (Turkey’s first near-all-powerful “executive president” since his June 2018 re-election was secured and triggered constitutional changes) keep a majority of the electorate on his side as he approaches two decades at the top? Erdogan's 2023 vision promoted ...