Turkey referendum

A constitutional referendum was held throughout Turkey on 16 April 2017 on whether to approve 18 proposed amendments to the Turkish constitution that were brought forward by the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (M

Basic guides to the referendum
IFES
Middle East Institute
Brookings 

The Turkish Supreme Electoral council has some information in English about the electoral system and electoral laws
the main presidency website has an English section with recent speeches and press releases

News stories and analysis
Hurriyet
CNN turkey has breakdowns of the results by region

Guardian

Analysis
Carnegie Europe
Economist - Turkey is sliding into dictatorship
Foreign Affairs

Newsweek - why the referendum matters to the US and the world

OpenDemocracy Net
LSE blogs

The Atlantic
Human Rights watch

Observation report of the conduct of the referendum

OSCE reports

Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe

AEGEE reasons for not observing

Background information on the state of democracy in Turkey

Chatham House

Rand

Freedom House

Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch

Turkey elections - get the facts

this week elections in Turkey provoked some controversy.

see our background information  blog posting for checking facts and figures about the election.

Observers from the Council of Europe which said the process was hindered by violence

Journalists have criticised press crackdowns 

European Federation of Journalists has also condemned events
as had the Turkish Union of Journalists

Detailed preliminary findings and analysis can be viewed on the OSCE election observations website.

Coming soon Turkey elections.- November 2015

Still relevant our posting of resources relating to the earlier round of elections in the Summer
Al- Monitor raised concerns about the impact on security of the snap elections.

resources monitoring security and its relationship to the elections include:
PGI Intelligence

Rand

Chatham House

RUSI 

Council on Foreign Relations
Washington Institute 
Research Turkey- has articles with economic and political analysis
Economist analysis
CFC global conflict tracker has resources on political conflict in Turkey

Up to date coverage of polls and news

can be found in Turkish news source Hurriyet  

Metropoll Turkey

Samer

Geizi research 

 James in Turkey blog from an English based journalist. sumarises polls in English.

For forthcoming election observations see the ODIHR site which has monitoring reports from earlier in 2015.

Turkey: Report from the Conference on Independent Civil Monitoring of Elections covers the conduct in July 2015

 

Turkey elections- end of single party rule?

This week Turkey went to the polls. Get some background by using these recommended resources.
The official electoral body has facts and results (currently in Turkish ) only.
OSCE observed the conduct of the elections. Find more out about their mission and read the initial findings on their website.

BBC has a basic guide to the issues on its website and does Time Magazine. Al-Jazeera centre for studies has issued a special report outlining the implications of the elections.
Al-Monitor Turkey pulse has a good collections of articles and analysis covering events.

Blogs

James in Turkey - from journalist Michael Sercan Daventry has coverage. It includes polls and examination of the manifesto pledges

Open democracy net discussion.

Academic discussion from the Conversation.

LSE EUROPP blog

Analysis of Turkish politicsGood sources include:
Rethink Institute Washington DC.
Washington Institute.
Rand analysis of economic and political policy in the region.
Council on Foreign Relations.
Brookings.
Carnegie Endowment.
Turkey Analyst  bi-weekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Joint Center
Chatham House
Centre for Policy and Research on Turkey (Research Turkey)independent, non-partisan, non-governmental organisation devoted to policy analysis