Strategic Council Online—Interview: An international issues expert said about the recent verbal and diplomatic tensions between Turkish officials and the Zionist regime: a deep pessimism has been created in the relations between the parties since Erdogan came to power. Despite exchanging ambassadors and opening embassies, the two sides still have serious doubts about each other’s intentions.
Strategic Council Online – Note: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent trip to Iraq, after his last visit to Baghdad 13 years ago, is considered one of the most important political, economic, and security developments in the relations between the two countries.
Hamid Khoshayand- an expert on regional issues
Strategic Council Online—Opinion: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkiye, on the same night that he won the second round of the presidential elections in May 2023, told the crowd of his supporters, “We love Istanbul, we started our journey to this city, and we will continue it.” At the same time, he wanted to take back the Istanbul Municipality from the rival and kept repeating that we will take back Istanbul. Erdogan referred to the Istanbul Municipality, which his party lost in 2019 elections of this metropolis and the economic capital of Turkiye, to his Republican opponent, Akram Imamoglu.
Siyamak Kakaee—Researcher of Turkiye affairs
Strategic Council Online—Opinion: Turkey’s March 31 local elections, which ended with the opposition’s victory and Erdogan’s party’s defeat, is considered an important “decisive point” in the future of Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy developments.
It determines the fate of several important political issues, in addition to the election of mayors and local managers for the next five years.
Hamid Khosayand – expert on regional issues
Strategic Council Online – Interview: An analyst of Turkey affairs considered the results of the first round of the elections as a kind of victory for Erdogan and said: With the victory of Kılıçdaroğlu, some regional changes might be witnessed, but in any case, it seems that the winner of the elections will face a series of internal problems and those problems will be aggravated if Kılıçdaroğlu wins.