It's the (Political) Economy, Aptal!
Although insisting on monetary policy that led inflation to soar as high as 80%, this individual still won Turkey's presidential election in May 2023. Pronunciation counts.
Who is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
Turkish Airlines removed the content of this dizi from its inflight programming after President Erdoğan complained that it insulted Turkish history.
Muhteşem Yüzyıl nedir? What is Magnificent Century?
The four contiguous states in which the territory Kurds call their homeland of Kurdistan lies.
What are Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran?
These are six of the eight countries with which Turkey shares a land border.
What are Bulgaria, Greece, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia?
The exiled cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom the Turkish government blames for orchestrating the 2016 coup, lived in this US state before his death in October last year.
What is Pennsylvania?
With membership in its board of directors allotted based on parliamentary distribution, the AKP has powerful influence over this media watchdog.
What is the Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK)?
Berfin Emre Çetin uses this term to refer to the AKP's closure of certain Alevi TV outlets in the diaspora.
What is communicative ethnocide?
A top-down nationalization campaign of eradicating Kurdish identity spread the idea that Kurds didn't exist, they were merely this type of Turk who had forgotten they were Turkish.
What is "mountain Turk"?
This ill-fated conflict resolution initiative was meant to pave the way for FM Ahmet Davutoğlu's vision of Strategic Depth, in which Turkey (re)cultivates historical ties in its region.
What is zero problems with neighbors?
The 1980 coup took place in large part to quell raging street violence between far-leftist groups and far-right groups like this colorful youth organization.
What is the Grey Wolves?
Crony capitalist ties among the AKP and major holding companies means the party has influence over approximately this percentage of private media.
What is about 90%?
Turkish actors have recently been let go from state-run TV shows like Teşkilat (Shadow Team) because of their support on social media for what?
What is a boycott of government-linked business following İmamoğlu's arrest?
The Turkish state's peace process ("solution process") with the Kurds, begun in 2012, ended in this month and year, after a pro-Kurdish party won seats and parliament and a PKK youth wing assassinated two police officers.
What is July 2015?
Arguably throwing away an opportunity for resolving the island's divided status and hampering Turkey's EU bid, this is the year in which the Greek portion of Cyprus joined the EU.
What is 2004?
The year of Turkey's first coup, which ousted the Democrat Party and saw three of its leaders hanged.
What is 1960?
This type of punishment was imposed against the Doğan Media group after its news outlets' critical coverage of a government-linked charity, basically bankrupting the group and leading to its sale to pro-AKP Demirören Group in 2018.
What is a tax fine? ($3 billion)
The Netflix series Kulüp (The Club), served to raise awareness within Turkey of how Turkish non-Muslim minorities were heavily discriminated against with this 1942 policy.
What is the Welfare Tax?
The conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish state began in this year, and led to more than 40,000 deaths.
What is 1984?
Turkey has had numerous reversals in its policies toward Syria, currently pushes for a strong role in reconstruction. These are two of Turkey's main goals in post-Assad Syria.
What are return refugees, disband SDF/YPG/Kurdish militias, construction projects, defense exports, global status, leverage against Israel and Iran, like-minded Islamic actor in the region
The TV station President Erdoğan called to speak live on air during the 2016 coup via FaceTime, arguably turning the tide by showing proof of life and calling people into the streets.
What is CNN Türk?
Fear of losing their jobs, especially in a precarious economy, means that many artists as well as journalists in Turkey engage in this.
What is self-censorship?
In contrast to the harems and palace intrigues of Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Magnificent Century), Diriliş: Ertuğrul (Resurrection: Ertuğrul) depicts the battle-filled adventures of the father of Osman, founder of the Ottoman Empire, and aired on this TV channel.
What is TRT, state-owned Turkish Radio and Television?
Turkey objects to the US arming of this Syrian Kurdish militant group in the fight against ISIS.
What is the People's Protection Units (YPG)?
The international event and year in which President Erdoğan made his "one-minute" speech, telling Israeli President Shimon Peres "you know well how to kill" before leaving the stage.
What is the 2009 Davos World Economic Forum?
The Islamist party that was ousted from power in 1997 in a "soft" coup by ultimatum, precipitating a crackdown of pious individuals that led Gülen to flee to the US.
What is the Welfare Party/Refah Partisi?