On tenterhooks

TURKEY - Report 13 Mar 2022 by Murat Ucer and Atilla Yesilada

The politics author is concerned that Turkey is edging close to a repeat of 2001, which could turn 2022 or 2023, into 2002. Too cryptic? Turkey’s 2001 crisis was followed by 2002 elections, which witnessed the disappearance of the “ancien regime”.

At the home front, Erdogan and his AKP-MHP alliance are preoccupied with foreign policy, dealing with the economic hardship by simply denying it, while the opposition is once again gaining in the polls, as CHP leader Kilicdaroglu visits the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir with positive reviews.

In diplomacy, we make short shrift of the Russia-Ukrainian summit in Antalya, Biden’s phone call and the state visit by the Israeli president, because Erdogan is yet to prove his capacity to convert the sudden explosion of good will by Turkey’s allies into dollars and cents.

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