Yavuz Baydar

Yavuz Baydar is a senior Turkish columnist, and news analyst. A founding member of the Platform for Independent Journalism (P24) in Istanbul, he has been reporting on Turkey and monitoring media issues since 1980. A European Press Prize Laureate in 2014, he is also the winner of Germany's 'Journalistenpreis' in 2018.

Will Imamoglu score victory in Istanbul election again?
2019-06-12
Imamoglu may be the final barrier between Erdogan and an absolutist order that…
EU hints at ‘privileged partnership,’ not membership, as Turkey’s best bet
2019-06-05
How serious is Ankara in reaching out to the EU?
2019-05-19
Erdogan’s Istanbul grab is no surprise
2019-05-15
Years of power grab have eradicated Turkey’s semi-democracy, with separation of…
Erdogan’s Istanbul grab is no surprise
2019-05-12
Two rays of hope in post-election Turkey
2019-04-11
Kurds have become the game-setters for the outcome of the elections, which…
Is Erdogan’s long-ruling AKP doomed to be divided?
2019-03-10
Why Turkey needs to decide where it stands as alliances shift
2019-02-22
Turkey is adrift because of four major missteps in the past decade.
Putin wants Erdogan to yield right of way to Damascus
2019-01-29
What safe zone? Turkey’s margin to manoeuvre in Syria shrinks
2019-01-20
Turkey-PKK grand bargain is a pipe dream
2019-01-13
Turkey’s free society is disappearing into a sarcophagus
2018-12-09
Turning Turkey into a ‘zombie’ nation of undesirables
2018-11-11
How Turkey’s nationalists upstaged Erdogan
2018-10-30
The Gordian knot called Idlib challenges Erdogan
2018-09-09
Turkey, US rushing towards an irreparable rupture
2018-08-24
Erdogan wants a free hand to do as he pleases, with impunity, even as he seeks…
‘Midnight Express’: It’s the 1970s once more in Erdogan’s Turkey
2018-07-29
Turkish opposition has hard time adjusting to Erdogan’s authoritarian politics
2018-07-28
Erdogan has issued decrees from day one. He seems bent on showing his…
For the EU, Turkey is now only a transactional partner. Period
2018-07-02
Turkey’s election turning into a fight on other fronts
2018-06-10