Aykan Erdemir
COVID-19 and Erdogan’s Power Consolidation
Since the rise to power of the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey in 2002, its leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used successive crises as pretexts to consolidate power that has facilitated his increasingly autocratic rule. From Turkish history’s biggest corruption scandal in December 2013 to a failed coup attempt in July 2016, […]
Northern Syria: A Small Withdrawal’s ‘Massive’ Effects (Audio)
America’s withdrawal of approximately 1,000 troops from northeast Syria is one of those quantitatively small events that will have a “massive” long-term effect on the Middle East and beyond. So, said Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish parliament and a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. On […]
Update on Turkish Elections (Conference Call Audio)
Dr. Aykan Erdemir, Senior Fellow at FDD and former member of the Turkish Parliament, shares his insights into the outcome of April’s Turkish municipal elections. Recorded April 10, 2019.
