Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling AKP party appears set to suffer a nationwide setback against the main opposition CHP, preliminary unofficial results showed on Sunday. Erdoğan's AKP is ...

In this month’s Turkish parliamentary elections, the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) won almost 50 percent of the popular vote, up from 46.5 in the previous elections. The success was ...

Social democrats prevailed in local elections in Istanbul, and as Erdoğan himself says, “Whoever wins Istanbul wins Turkey.” A crowd in Istanbul celebrates the election victory of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu ...

A near-decade of rule by Turkey’s governing AKP has reshaped the state and consolidated the party’s clear political hegemony. But this very success exposes serious remaining problems in Turkish ...

Two more opposition mayors have joined Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s president and head of the AKP, announced on November 19. Isa Yildirim is ...

All the critics are wrong. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development party, Turkey has never been better. In fact, it continues to improve! The economy is thriving, and is ...

The post-2013 phase of the AKP's rule hosted increasing hostility towards rights-based socio-political opposition. This stage can be defined by the pervasion of anti-feminist discourse into the sphere ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has dealt a blow to the army, which has been the central pillar of the Turkish state since its founding by Kemal Ataturk ...

After four elections in 20 months, Turkey’s seemingly interminable campaign season has finally ended, with the Justice and Development Party (AKP) claiming a surprise victory and regaining ...

The ultraconservative Ismail Aga community is closely linked to Turkey's ruling AKP party. Some are now questioning that influence after news of the forced marriage of a 6-year-old girl within the ...