An Alternative View of the 28 February Coup
What was the February 28 coup? It was a special moment in Turkish politics. It…
What was the February 28 coup? It was a special moment in Turkish politics. It…
Despite the rising public displeasure with the existing ruling power, the opposition seems to fail…
Turkey and Venezuela share this political model: democracy at home, autonomy abroad. They support each…
In light of this picture, the claim or the fact that some educated and wealthy…
If the lack of liberty, disrespect for merit, and an economic slowdown are not the…
Does the fray over European security between the U.S. and the EU demonstrate a return…
Turkey’s policy of keeping and enlarging its military presence in Syria has two aims: Sustaining…
It is too early to talk about the future of the People’s Alliance. However, it…
President Erdogan signaled a new wave of military operations in the south of the country…
The most striking feature of the Brunson case is that the U.S. has resisted to…
Turkey can rightly expect for the EU, and in particular for Germany, to leave its…
The question of whether Turkey will live up to its claim of being a great…
Parties that adopted traditional nationalist discourse lost the elections. One of the biggest losers of…
The post-June 24 elections era in Turkey will not nurture the character of a society…
The Turkish model, offered by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) after 2002, presents…
A roust may hit the opposition parties, especially after the elections. The main reason for…
On June 24, the people will rather decide whether the country should revert the old…
The AK Party proposes the politics of native-national, which is a project of political unity…
Turkey will reach the moment of political normalcy and Erdogan will then retreat to a…
In all these years as the AK Party has pursued society’s demands for ending the…
The shift to a presidential system may be the most critical step in institutionalizing democratic…
Anti-Erdoganism is far from responding to societal demands and this makes it a poor idea…
The options before the opposition comes to be either to transform the secular-nationalist identity of…
Usually accompanied by the use of virulent and exclusionary language towards the rest, polarization of…
The AK Party’s political paradigm is shaped by an amalgam of liberal, conservative and nationalist…
Following the momentum of economic and political liberalization in Turkey, and as the realm of…
While the AK Party cannot be blamed for reducing democracy to elections alone, it is…
As pro-democratic political and public actors change power balances in their favor, coup attempts become…
FETO, a religious criminal cult and led by the US based cleric Fetullah Gülen, is…
The post-2002 period figures as the acceleration of Turkey’s evolution into a total state. This…
The current constitutional reform in Turkey puts a premium on democratic politics in the face…
Below the iceberg, Gülenism has a real face, a dark obscurantist zeal for world domination,…
Today, the AK Party strives to finalize this rationalization process by legalizing the de facto…
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