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...“He could be a great father figure to go down in history as the guy who put Turkey back to a normal regime,” says Suat Kınıklıoğlu, a former ruling party member of parliament who ran one of Yavaş’s previous...
...Suat Kiniklioglu, a former ruling party MP, remembers that Erdogan balked at media speculation 10 years ago that his youngest daughter, Sumeyye, could become a paid adviser....
...“Most important is the economic misery,” said Mr Kiniklioglu. “Without fixing the economy, the AKP will have to continue being on the defensive.”...
...“You have a guy who, for the first time in 17 years, actually has the capability to cut into the conservative vote,” said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former AKP MP and visiting scholar at the University of Oxford...
...“You have a guy who for the first time in 17 years actually has the capability to cut into the conservative vote,” said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former AKP MP and visiting scholar at the University of Oxford....
...“I think he is primarily driven by holding on to power and shaping the country according to his worldview,” says Suat Kiniklioglu, a former AKP member of parliament, who quit the party in 2012....
...“It’s difficult to speak of the AK Party in a traditional sense any more,” said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former AKP MP, now at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Sweden....
...But the aggressive style of negotiation also has its benefits, Mr Kiniklioglu says....
...He became the party,” Mr Kiniklioglu says. As the economy stumbles, Mr Erdogan has become more autocratic....
...“It’s a gamble, and it shows how desperate he is to win back the majority that he would call this fresh election,” said Suat Kiniklioglu, an ex-AKP MP previously close to Mr Erdogan and now a critic of the...
...Mr Kiniklioglu argued that ultimately Mr Erdogan would be swayed by domestic politics, with parliamentary elections next year, rather than US pressure....
...Another analyst, Suat Kiniklioglu at the Ankara-based Centre for Strategic Communication, a think-tank, said the Evren decision would deter future soldiers from similar actions....
...“Gul’s statement clearly points to an unwillingness to be part of a solely Erdogan-defined political future,” said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former MP in the ruling AKP, who cautioned that the two men have still...
...“We have entered uncharted territory,” Mr Kiniklioglu says....
...But Suat Kiniklioglu, a former AK party member of parliament, argued in the Today’s Zaman newspaper that the divisions were growing worse between the Islamist-rooted Mr Erdogan and Alevis, Kurds and secularists...
...“The reaction really stems from insisting on a conservative agenda over the last couple of years [since Mr Erdogan’s 2011 re-election],” said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former ruling party MP....
...Suat Kiniklioglu, a former member of parliament for Turkey’s ruling AK party, said he doubted the EU had as much sway over Turkey’s domestic politics as it did a decade ago, when the government embarked...
...I hope the prime minister understands the need to tread carefully,” said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former ruling party MP....
...Suat Kiniklioglu, once an MP for the AKP but now disillusioned with the party, argues that most Turks are now neither “black” nor “white” – but somewhere in the middle....
...Suat Kiniklioglu, a former ruling party Turkish MP, argues that a possible peace with the PKK would bolster that relationship, which Ankara sees as key for reducing its energy dependence on outside powers...
...“We are effectively at war with Syria because we have chosen to support the Syrian opposition,” said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former Turkish ruling party MP, in a nod to widespread reports – officially denied...
...“Turkey continues to be frustrated and disappointed,” said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former ruling party MP who now heads the Ankara-based Centre for Strategic Communication, a non-government organisation....
...unsettled Tehran to the extent that they want to show the Turks, the Americans and so on that the Iranian/Shia element will make life uncomfortable for those who want to change the status quo,” said Suat Kiniklioglu...
...“We are also downplaying it, but the competition is ongoing, especially in Iraq,” said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former Turkish ruling party MP and the director of the Centre for Strategic Communication, an Ankara-based...
...Suat Kiniklioglu, the ruling AK party’s deputy chairman of external affairs, said: “Turkish-Israeli relations have suffered an immeasurable blow....
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