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Halil Karaveli

Halil Karaveli is senior fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Programme Joint Centre. He is the author of Why Turkey is Authoritarian: From Atatürk to Erdoğan (Pluto Press).

Turkey: does Kılıçdaroğlu have a path to victory?

The xenophobia from the social-democratic leader since his first-round defeat is unlikely to win him the second.

Could an Alevi social democrat defeat the authoritarian Erdoğan in next year’s election?

The realignment on the French left highlights the basic requirement that the left unite the working and professional classes.