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A Wall Street Journal report has named Selçuk Bayraktar, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law and head of BAYKAR, as a possible successor to the President, should he retire by 2028. Bayraktar is the chairman and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BAYKAR, the Turkish defense company and manufacturer of the prolific TB2 Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV). The TB2, with an export...

Turkey's Republican People's Party (CHP) has achieved a historic electoral success, not seen since 1977, sweeping a total of 35 provinces in the country's local elections, with the AKP coming second having secured its candidates' mayoral election in just 24. https://x.com/berkesen/status/1774521430081765665?s=20 Set to win both the capital city Ankara and Turkey's most populous metropolis, Istanbul, the mayorship for the latter Erdogan's...

The Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, addressed citizens at a rally of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) on March 26 in the central Anatolian town of Aksaray, deep in the AKP's electoral heartland. In a speech that sought to primarily address issues of pressing domestic concern and fuel the AKP's electoral base for the coming local elections to be...