The AKP, one-man rule, and the fact of Erdoğan
While the AKP is still largely under Erdoğan’s influence, it also has a complex, differentiated, multi-layered, multi-variable social and economic background.
Why no coalition?
At the end of the day, if today we are heading for new elections, it is the MHP that bears the strategic and the CHP that bears the tactical blame for this outcome.
The simple consequence of anti-Erdoğan politics
It is a problem for Erdoğan's opponents that his prestige has strengthened further in the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and in the eyes of the public, if one fails to approach him fairly.
The AKP’s last move
In the end, the government did come up with a very successful move: All the bargaining that had been going on with the US for months was concluded with an agreement that enabled Turkey to draw US support to its side, with the further corollary that Turkey came to be certified as a primary partner in the struggle against IS. (…) Cooperation with the US also means cooperation with the Turkish army, and renders the AKP’s survival significant and functional directly in the eyes of these two actors.
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YDG-H: The black shirts of the PKK
In all settlement areas where it gained significant influence, the YDG-H then embarked upon a socio-political cleansing operation. Its mission of “building autonomy” was and is really a euphemism for the organization’s task of clearing the non-PKK population out of the Southeast. Coupled with the state’s weakness in preserving law and order and protecting citizens in the Southeast, the people of the region have been laid at the mercy of this armed urban gang.