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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02ANKARA7766 |
AK PARTY IN A PARLIAMENTARY LANDSLIDE: CLOSE TO A [...] Summary: Justice and Development (AK) Party's landslide victory and Establishment standard-bearer Republican People's Party's (CHP) distant second-place finish in Turkey's Nov. 3 general elections cuts the number of parties in parliament back to only two for the first time in decades. While P. [...] |
2002-11-03 23:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 02ANKARA7921 |
TURKEY: AK PARTY'S LANDSLIDE VICTORY SWEEPS ASIDE [...] (C) Summary: After crushing defeat by AK in Nov. 3 elections, leaders of MHP, ANAP, and DYP, all of which failed to reenter Parliament, separately declared their intent to vacate their party chairmanships. With P.M. Ecevit's pre-election announcement that he will leave DSP leadership in April [...] |
2002-11-05 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 02ANKARA8079 |
TURKEY: CHP ELECTION POSTMORTEM [...] (C) Summary: The Nov. 3 Parliamentary elections were a major defeat for CHP at the hands of AK. Although CHP joins AK as one of only two parties in Parliament, CHP officials and activists are deeply disappointed by their distant second-place finish. Much of the blame has been placed on CHP [...] |
2002-11-08 12:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 02ANKARA8108 |
AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH AK PARTY CHAIRMAN ERDOGAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with victorious AK Party leader Erdogan for first post-election visit. He complimented AK on its constructive electoral campaign and victory and noted U.S. readiness to work with the new AK government. U.S. seeks stronger bilateral economic ties and urges AK to fo [...] |
2002-11-08 15:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS ECON AA POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 02ANKARA8139 |
AK PARTY DYNAMICS AND U.S. INTERESTS [...] No summary [...] |
2002-11-12 14:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARTIES PGOV PINS POLITICAL PREL TU |
| 02ANKARA8165 |
CAN AK PARTY REMOVE OBSTACLES TO PARTY LEADER [...] (C) Summary: On the surface of it, and given AK Party's strong parliamentary majority, there should be a straightforward, if sequential, legal way ahead for disenfranchised AK Party chairman Erdogan to reclaim his political rights, gain election to Parliament, and be appointed Prime Minister. [...] |
2002-11-13 15:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 02ANKARA8783 |
TURKEY: OPPOSITION CHP SEES AN AK PARTY DIVIDED [...] (C) Summary: Trounced at the polls on Nov. 3, Deniz Baykal's CHP is already trying to turn the tables on the Islam-influenced AK Party government. CHP is now focusing on the headscarf controversy that flared up again when AK's Speaker of Parliament Arinc and his headscarf-clad wife were on ha [...] |
2002-12-03 09:54:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 02ANKARA9051 |
TURKEY: AK PARTY SEES DENKTAS AS OBSTACLE TO [...] (C) Summary: The political debate in Ankara regarding Turkey's EU candidacy and the future of Cyprus is revealing sharp differences between the ruling AK (Justice and Development) Party/Government and the Establishmentarian foreign policy class, including elements that predominate in the MFA. [...] |
2002-12-19 12:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 05ANKARA4042 |
TURKISH OPPOSITION PARTIES: DEVELOPMENTS ON THE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's three main left-of-center parties have been unable to mount a serious challenge to the governing AKP. The left-of-center parties share similar ideologies and compete for the same minor segment of the Turkish electorate but are unable to cooperate and are plagued by poli [...] |
2005-07-12 08:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 05ANKARA4182 |
TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST: UPDATE ON PRO-PKK POLITICAL [...] No summary [...] |
2005-07-19 14:18:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 05ANKARA4497 |
TURKISH OPPOSITION PARTIES: DEVELOPMENTS ON THE [...] (C) Summary. Turkey's two main right-of-center opposition parties have been unable to mount a serious challenge to the governing AKP. The two parties share very similar ideologies and compete for the same voters, but they are unable to unite under a common banner. As with the parties on the [...] |
2005-08-03 08:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 05ANKARA6337 |
CENTER-RIGHT ANAP: A TURKISH BEE RISES FROM THE [...] (C) Summary. Over the past several months, more than 20 Turkish MPs have defected to the ostensibly center-right, liberal, and democratic Motherland Party (ANAP), giving ANAP the right to form its own group in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA). As an official parliamentary group, ANA [...] |
2005-10-20 12:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PINS PREL TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 05ANKARA7070 |
BAYKAL USES NATIONALISM TO CEMENT CONTROL OF [...] (C) Summary. Party Chairman and former Foreign Minister Deniz Baykal was re-elected chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on November 19, solidifying his dictatorial control over the party. The convention also showcased the continued evolution of CHP from a progressi [...] |
2005-12-01 16:47:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 05ANKARA7215 |
NO SPLITS IN TURKEY'S GOVERNING AKP PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Summary: Despite media reports and opposition rumors of splits among PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party's (AKP) 357 parliamentarians, the group remains intact )- for now. Among AKP MPs, there are distinctive pious, pragmatic and nationalist currents, with crosscutting personal l [...] |
2005-12-08 15:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 05ISTANBUL1420 |
CHP DISSIDENTS: VOICES FROM ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: Discontent among "dissidents" within the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) (ref A) continues to fester in Istanbul. The party's July 31 Istanbul Congress, which began in fisticuffs, left the provincial party apparatus firmly in the hands of supporters of CHP Chairman D [...] |
2005-08-18 15:06:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 05ISTANBUL147 |
INTERNECINE WARFARE THREATENS TO SPLIT OPPOSITION [...] (sbu) Summary: Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Deniz Baykal and Sisli Mayor Mustafa Sarigul are set for a collision course at the upcoming January 29-30 party congress. Efforts by Istanbul MP Zulfu Livaneli and CHP delegate Hursit Gunes to present themselves as compromise candidates [...] |
2005-01-28 17:43:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 05ISTANBUL2110 |
ISTANBUL'S AK PARTY WOMEN: GETTING (RELATIVELY) [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Istanbul Women's Branch celebrated the 71st anniversary of women's suffrage in Turkey December 5 with a panel discussion focused on expanding the role of women in politics. AKP remains a party in which women do the grassroot [...] |
2005-12-14 08:48:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TU POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 06ZAGREB1260 |
FAR RIGHT POSITIONS ITSELF FOR 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary and comment: The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) has consolidated its status as a major right-wing political party and gained greater acceptability as a democratic political entity, although some statements made by its leaders occasionally echo its extreme nationalist past. Domestica [...] |
2006-10-18 07:19:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTIONS |
| 07ZAGREB1021 |
ELECTIONS 2007: PROFILE OF THE MAIN CHALLENGER -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable, part of our series (ref A) leading up Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections, looks at the prospects for the opposition Social Democratic Party, the only serious challenger to the ruling HDZ. Having entered the election season confident it would oust the HDZ, t [...] |
2007-11-20 08:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB1024 |
ELECTIONS 2007 - THE DIASPORA VOTE [...] (U) This cable, the fifth in our series of pre-election reports (reftels), focuses on Croatia's unique institution of diaspora-elected parliamentary seats. With polls predicting a very close race between the ruling Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) and the opposition Social-Democratic Party [...] |
2007-11-20 15:10:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB1025 |
PRELIMINARY REPORT OF ODIHR LIMITED ELECTION [...] SUMMARY: The OSCE/ODIHR's Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM) to Croatia released its interim report on November 20. All indicators point toward free and fair elections conducted in line with the established legal framework, but the report does draw particular attention to the new La [...] |
2007-11-21 11:44:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR OSCE POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTIONS |
| 07ZAGREB1061 |
CROATIA'S RIGHT-WING - STILL CONSERVATIVE, BUT LESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a stunning blow to right-wing politics across Croatia, the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) lost 7 parliamentary seats in the November 25 parliamentary elections. Despite attempts to repackage itself as a mainstream alternative to the dominant Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), t [...] |
2007-12-06 08:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB292 |
RIGHT-WING COALITION WINS PLURALITY IN EARLY LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: A coalition of three parties ranging from the far-right Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) to the center-right Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the moderate Croatian Social-Liberal Party (HSLS) won 10 of 25 seats in local elections held March 18 in Slavonski Brod. The gr [...] |
2007-03-27 11:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB353 |
OPPOSITION LEADER RESIGNS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Former Prime Minister Ivica Racan resigned April 11 as president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Croatia's largest opposition party, due to health reasons. After weeks of increasingly bleak cancer diagnoses, his departure is not unexpected, but coming just seven mon [...] |
2007-04-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB431 |
END OF AN ERA: DEATH OF OPPOSITION LEADER AND FORMER PRIME [...] (U) Ivica Racan - the first and so far only President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) -- died April 29 of cancer at the age of 63. Three weeks earlier, Racan resigned as SDP president, after his health took a turn for the worse. While his funeral will be a private event, hund [...] |
2007-05-03 06:39:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB512 |
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS LINE UP TO LEAD PARTY INTO NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatia's Social Democratic Party (SDP) will choose a new leader at the June 2 party conference, to replace Ivica Racan, the former PM who died last month. The candidates are Zelka Antunovic, former deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister; Milan Bandic, current ma [...] |
2007-05-25 10:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB546 |
MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY ELECTS YOUTHFUL NEW LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Zoran Milanovic is the new President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). A youthful 41 years old, this former diplomat defeated acting party president and former defense minister Zeljka Antunovic in the second round of voting by 828 to 675 votes of dele [...] |
2007-06-04 15:31:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB670 |
SDP NOMINATES JURCIC AS CANDIDATE FOR PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) has nominated economics professor and Former Minister of Economy Ljubo Jurcic as its candidate for Prime Minister. Although not altogether new in Croatia, the idea of separating the role of PM from that of Party President wa [...] |
2007-07-12 09:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB816 |
SDP CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER CRITICIZED FOR OPPOSING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ljubo Jurcic, Prime-Ministerial candidate of Croatia's leading opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in late August commented that Serbian investment would not be welcomed in Croatia. All of Croatia's other centrist parties, including the governing HDZ, seeing nat [...] |
2007-09-06 06:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB950 |
SCENESETTER FOR CROATIA'S NOVEMBER 25 PARLIAMENTARY [...] This is the first in a series of reports on Croatia's upcoming elections, providing a general overview of the issues central to the election. Further installments will discuss specific parties and issues in greater detail. 2. SUMMARY: As Croatia gears up for parliamentary elections tentati [...] |
2007-10-17 12:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB953 |
CROATIA ADOPTS LEGISLATION ON DIRECT ELECTION OF MAYORS AND [...] On October 5, just one week before adjourning for the upcoming legislative elections, the Croatian Parliament (Sabor) passed a package of legislation providing for direct election of mayors, county prefects, and their deputies. Until now, these officials have been chosen by the members of the [...] |
2007-10-18 11:42:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB954 |
REFERENDUM ON CROATIA'S ENTRY INTO NATO - NOT LEGALLY [...] SUMMARY: Real public debate on the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO membership has only just begun, but the campaign for the November 25 parliamentary elections has already produced promises of a NATO referendum from some Croatian opposition parties. While all parties in Parliament are pro-NATO [...] |
2007-10-19 07:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 07ZAGREB955 |
REFERENDUM ON CROATIA'S ENTRY INTO NATO - NOT LEGALLY [...] SUMMARY: Real public debate on the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO membership has only just begun, but the campaign for the November 25 parliamentary elections has already produced promises of a NATO referendum from some Croatian opposition parties. While all parties in Parliament are pro-NATO [...] |
2007-10-19 07:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 08ZAGREB24 |
NEW CROATIAN GOVERNMENT CONFIRMED; PM SANADER'S [...] (U) Croatia,s re-elected Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on January 12 presented his new government and its program to the newly elected Croatian parliament (Sabor). After a full day of parliamentary debate, 82 Sabor members supported Sanader,s cabinet, while 62 members of the opposition voted aga [...] |
2008-01-15 15:21:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 08ZAGREB41 |
BRANKO VUKELIC, NEW DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (SBU) Among the more controversial appointments made in the forming of the new Croatian government on January 12 was the naming of former Economy Minister Branko Vukelic as Croatia's new Minister of Defense. Vukelic's tenure as Economy Minister was not viewed as among the more successful per [...] |
2008-01-22 12:30:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR MARR HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 08ZAGREB42 |
GORDAN JANDROKOVIC, CROATIA'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (U) In a new Croatian government that consists largely of too familiar faces (reftels), perhaps the most important new face, certainly for U.S. engagement with Croatia, belongs to new Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic. From 2004 to the present, Jandrokovic was chair of the Croatian parliame [...] |
2008-01-22 12:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
| 08ZAGREB65 |
AMBASSADOR MEETS SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT LUKA BEBIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Sabor President Luka Bebic strongly endorses all of PM Sanader's priorities, including close cooperation with the US, a strong desire to join NATO, and an eagerness to play a constructive role in the region. He said the Sabor should shortly take up several pieces of legisla [...] |
2008-01-30 11:51:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |