Turkey after the local elections: How Erdoğan‘s defeat could change domestic and foreign policy

Turkey’s political landscape is shifting. President Erdoğan and his AKP party suffered their biggest defeat in more than two decades at the country’s recent municipal elections. Turkey’s western allies will be looking to see whether the changing tide at home may affect Ankara’s foreign policy.

Guests:

Dr. Salim Çevik is a fellow at SWP at SWP’s Center of Applied Turkey Studies. He focuses on domestic Turkish politics, populism, nationalism, political Islam, state and religion and Turkey in the Middle East and Africa.

Dr. Berk Esen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sabancı University, Turkey. His areas of interest include Turkish politics, authoritarian regimes and party politics.

Host: Esme Nicholson

Suggested Reading and Audio:

Jens Bastian, Yaşar Aydın Aufschwung oder Flaute: Was bei den türkischen Kommunalwahlen für die Wirtschaft auf dem Spiel steht SWP-Podcast 2024/P 07, 18.03.2024

Hürcan Aslı Aksoy, Yaşar Aydın Kommunalwahlen in der Türkei: Neue Freiräume und deutsch-türkische Kooperationsfelder SWP-Aktuell 2024/A 25, 03.05.2024, 8 Seiten