Despite being democratically elected, Turkey's ruling AKP party moved towards increasingly authoritarian measures in the years that followed. After the coup attempt in July 2016, the AKP government declared a state of emergency which President Erdo?an saw as an opportunity to pu…
Turkey in the Twenty-First Century: Bourgeois Revolution, Winners, and LosersHakan Yilmaz1. In Lieu of an Introduction: Is it Curtains for Turkish Democracy?Bahar Baser and Ahmet Erdi Ozturk2. How Did We Get Here? Turkey's Slow Shift to AuthoritarianismOnur Bakiner3. Electoral I…
"This scholarly, interdisciplinary, and easy to read new book is beneficial for everyone whose main concerns are international relationships, politics in the Middle East, sociology and theology."--Ismail Albayrak, Australian Catholic University, Australia "Ideological and theolo…
This book explores and comparatively assesses how Armenians as minorities have been represented in modern Turkey from the twentieth century through to the present day, with a particular focus on the period since the first electoral victory of the AKP (Justice and Development Par…
Since the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP's temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violati…
This work problematizes the AKP-led radical re-making of the Turkish state by taking into consideration the constitutive role of crisis-ridden global neoliberal transformations on the domestic social and economic dynamics and processes.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than fifty participants, Baykan relates the intimate story of Turkey's socio-cultural divides and the JDP's intraparty organisational dynamics. Shifting the focus away from structural factors, he also highlights the importance of the JDP'…
