Notable challenges in Canada-Turkey relations

 by Chris R. Kilford International eyes will soon turn to the 2023 Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections and whether President Erdoğan (pictured above) and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will continue in power. Relations between Canada and Turkey have generally been good since the two countries established diplomatic ties

Turkey’s ‘annus horribilis’

 The BBC’s Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen, recently wrote that 2016 had “exhausted Turkey.” He was referring to the seemingly endless suicide attacks and car bombings that had stunned the country, the deadly but failed July military coup, and the devastating clashes between government forces and the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey’s