Hints and tips:
...Jakarta is also lobbying Washington for Indonesia to receive a tailored trade deal on critical minerals similar to one agreed with Japan in March....
...“The airing of the administration’s dirty laundry may lead to the public losing faith that there’s much ideology left in the Erdogan camp,” said Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkey programme at the Washington...
...“Both the AKP and MHP [also] share this basic idea that Turkey is under attack from inside and outside.”...
...Flint Global, led by Simon Fraser, former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, is advising Huawei on policy, while MHP Communications is leading on parliamentary relations....
...A wild card is Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the ultranationalist MHP that has supported the AKP government for the past three years....
...He faces a looming confrontation with Washington over Turkey’s plan to buy an S-400 air defence system from Moscow....
...The AKP formed an alliance with the Nationalist Movement party (MHP) in 2018, which has been dubbed the People’s Alliance....
...A further erosion of the AKP’s influence has been its growing dependence on the ultra-right Nationalist Movement party, or MHP, who have been creeping allies since 2016....
...Mr Erdogan’s opportunist cozying-up to the MHP — whose paramilitary gangs used to hunt leftists and Islamists — dates from then....
...“This is a nightmare result for Turkish democracy,” said Alan Makovsky, a Turkey expert at the Centre for American Progress, a Washington-based think-tank....
...That challenge has prompted him to form an alliance with Devlet Bahceli, leader of the ultra-nationalist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)....
...One is Washington’s refusal to extradite Fethullah Gulen, the US-based cleric Turkey blames for the 2016 coup attempt....
...This week’s assault on the HDP is partly revenge, partly an attempt to win the support of the nationalist MHP party in a referendum to legitimise one-man rule....
...However, both the CHP and the MHP have their red lines....
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