A political thriller and some other (more boring) stuff

TURKEY - Report 31 Jul 2022 by Murat Ucer and Atilla Yesilada

In this last Weekly Tracker before August recess, the politics author lays out, in Hollywood style fictional form, the roadmap to 2023 elections. The movie starts with the Big Reveal of how Kilicdaroglu and the Nation Alliance ended the Erdogan Era in May 2023 elections. It then goes back to August 2022, starting to trace the key events and turning points, to explain how Erdogan’s 20-year long reign ended less than a year later.

Needless to say, to make the story compelling only the most-likely scenario is articulated with highly stylized events marking turning points in the plot. The reality is certain to proceed in a different fashion, but the essay contains all the ingredients the politics author used to draw up his 2023 election scenario.

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