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For the Turkish overseas election, round 2: It looks like the number of voting days have been REDUCED in countries that backed Kılıçdaroğlu in round 1: Britain, Ireland, Canada, the US. But NOT Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium – which voted Erdoğan. It's a bit fishy 🧵👇

The EU's response to the elections in Turkey, in which it mainly refers to the OSCE findings 👇🏼👇🏼

More reports of election fraud coming in. After objections, one parliamentary seat switched from AKP to Green Left Party in southern town of Urfa. Green Left Party reported similar cases where pro-Kurdish party secured zero votes in some of its strongholds while MHP secured many+

The mystery ended. Sinan Oğan, the Ata Alliance's presidential candidate, just announced that he'll support President Erdoğan in the second round of the elections.

With the latest developments in 🇹🇷 this week, the issue of the Syrian refugees might decide the elections on Sunday — and a future deal with Assad and mass deportations are becoming ever more likely. Here’s why and how 🇪🇺 should respond: clingendael.org/publication/or… Clingendael Institute

«With or without Erdoğan, we need to talk about refugees again» 👉 Nienke van Heukelingen & Friedrich C. Püttmann from our network partner Clingendael Institute shed light on one of the key issues discussed ahead of the 🇹🇷 presidential runoff on May 28: bit.ly/CN230509HP #TurkeyStudies

This year, our experts have carried out state-of-the-art research and shared their expertise in lots of events ☀ 🔎 (Re)read and (re)watch some of our publications and videos of the first half of 2023. clingendael.org/news/summer-re…

Cligendael’s Nienke van Heukelingen and Andrew Lebovich look at Turkey’s growing involvement in the Sahel, noting Ankara seeks to improve trade relations with and enhance its influence through arms sale, infrastructure projects, cultural programs and aid. [4/5] clingendael.org/publication/un…

📢🆕 Clingendael Alert 📄 'Dealen met #Rwanda: Dilemma's bij bescherming van #vluchtelingen in derde landen' Monika Sie Dhian Ho & Francesco Mascini onderzochten welke rol Rwanda nu al speelt in vluchtelingenopvang en het doel en de effecten van een verdergaande deal, zoals het Verenigd

Commission's 🇹🇷2023 Report published today. In short: Backsliding: 'gender equality', 'fundamental rights', 'judiciary'. Some progress: border management & org. crime. No progress:visa liberalization. Limited progress: Green Agenda.Only 10% alignment w.🇪🇺foreign & security policy

Ask our experts anything about the EU.🇪🇺 In the run-up to the European elections, we want to address your questions with our experts via short videos. Curious about how the EU works or about EU policy in a particular area? 🔵Submit your question here: forms.office.com/e/eGnTWmtEY0

Three Dutch aid organizations are pursuing legal action against the Dutch government over the EU-Turkey migration deal. They hold the Netherlands – which held the EU presidency at that time – accountable for violating Dutch, international and EU laws. nos.nl/artikel/251594…

Announced today: Thomas Hans Ossowski will be the new EU ambassador to Turkey. He succeeds Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut (who is also German). 🇹🇷🇪🇺

Ankara responded to the EU's Council Conclusions, which stated that the Council "attaches [...] importance to resumption of [...] the Cyprus settlement talks in further enhancing EU-Türkiye cooperation".

In cooperation with #KASGreece, we gathered key experts and stakeholders from politics and civil society as well as practitioners from the East #Mediterranean region and #Germany to discuss perspectives and challenges in managing #migration flows.

Just in: Turkey expresses support for Rutte as NATO SG, according to sources within NATO.

Turkey’s foreign minister is leading a delegation to Niger tomorrow. For more context on Turkey’s role in Niger and the wider Sahel, read the paper Nienke van Heukelingen and I wrote on the subject last year: clingendael.org/publication/un…