Turkey and Erdogan’s true legacy

Supporters of the main absorption Republican People’s Party (CHP) stitchery extracurricular the enactment office connected the time a tribunal was acceptable to regularisation connected whether to annul the party’s past wide legislature and unseat its leader, successful Ankara, Turkey, connected September 15, 2025. [Umit Bektas/Reuters]

On Monday, an Ankara tribunal postponed until October 24 its ruling connected whether the CHP absorption party’s league successful 2023 was conducted properly. If the tribunal finds irregularities, the league and its decisions could beryllium scrapped, including the predetermination of the party’s existent leader.

Already, some 30 mayors elected with the CHP are down bars, including the fashionable politician of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to destruct politically, to debar facing him successful the adjacent statesmanlike elections.

According to the constitution, Erdogan could not beryllium a campaigner again, yet his fixation with Imamoglu and his endless machinations connected Turkey’s governmental and judicial country suggest that helium aims not lone to question the presidency again successful 2028 but besides to marque sure that helium wins. And, turning his country’s home authorities and overseas affairs into a vehicle for his domination, Erdogan is establishing a non-democratic system. This has a nonstop effect connected the country’s people astatine location and abroad. 

By imposing his will connected all, by controlling politics, the information forces, the judiciary, the system and the quality media, Erdogan dominates everything. Except for the elections – arsenic Imamoglu’s repeated victories implicit Erdogan’s chosen candidates reveal. So, the president is present “canceling” his rivals, to marque sure things spell his way adjacent time.

He is besides keeping the Kurds captive to a “peace process” astir which helium reveals nothing, different than it being an evident effort to unit the pro-Kurdish enactment successful the assembly to collude successful the law alteration that would let him to question the presidency again. 

To support power of the citizens, Erdogan depends connected part and connected promoting a unsafe militarism which, successful turn, establishes Islamo-nationalism that does not support the secular quality of the state (as the subject did before). And adjacent arsenic the country’s policies astatine location and connected the planetary country are determined by the idiosyncratic interests of a antheral who has not ordained a governmental heir, Turkey has to woody with a greatly unpredictable narration with the dynamic duo of the United States and Israel, but is besides exposed to information connected galore subject and diplomatic fronts.

Today these whitethorn each look similar a projection of power, and whitethorn strengthen Erdogan’s image. However, they each beryllium connected the opportunism of 1 man, without anyone knowing what the very existent inheritance that helium will permission Turkey will bring: the civilian struggle which is brewing under the surface, and the effect of ever much rivals whom Turkey is provoking today.