Turkey’s opposition bloc, known as the “Nation Alliance” is paving the way for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by ensuring that Turkey’s autocratic transformation becomes institutionalized, Sinan Ciddi, non-resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), wrote in the National Interest.
Trouble among Turkey’s opposition parties continues with the center-right Good Party (İYİP) deputy Umit Ozdag accusing a senior official in his party of being a follower of U.S.-based Islamist preacher Fethullah Gulen.