Weekly Tracker: March 8-14

TURKEY - Report 08 Mar 2015 by Murat Ucer and Atilla Yesilada

Executive Summary The main opposition party CHP is aiming high in this election. Can it really score the 35% it has set as a goal? We think not, but the fault doesn’t lay with the party. Meanwhile, former President Mr. Abdullah Gul is signaling that he may return to active politics. What kind of a future awaits him and AKP, if he were to so? The Iraqi Army and its auxiliaries are currently bogged down at the gates of ISIS stronghold Tikrit, but eventually it will fall. Next stop is Mosul; will Turkey contribute to the campaign? Davutoglu’s visit to NYC to convince investors that Turkey is ‘...

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