The aim of this collection of essays, the first academic book on the topic in English, is to offer a preliminary analysis of Gezi protests and address the following questions: 'How can we account for the protests?' and 'Who were the protesters?'.
"No one could have predicted that a peaceful sit-in to counter government plans to raze Istanbul's Gezi park would escalate into a country-wide protest movement, arguably the most serious political crisis Turkey, a country often hailed as a 'model' in the region, has faced in th…
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 book discusses the rise of Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey to authoritarian power in the context of the global debate over the fragility of democracy and the persistence of authoritarianism"--
"This book discusses the rise of Putin in Russia and Erdoğan in Turkey to authoritarian power in the context of the global debate over the fragility of democracy and the persistence of authoritarianism"--
Turkey is a nation of contradictions and contrasts. Though considered democratic, the Erdogan government has increasingly begun to resemble a dictatorship, jailing it opponents and violently suppressing dissent. And though Turkey is notionally secular, the Justice and Developmen…
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.
Since the 1980 military coup in Turkey, much of the history and politics of the country can be described as a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. In this accessible account of the country's politics, society and economics, the authors delve into the causes and proce…
Since the 1980 military coup in Turkey, much of the history and politics of the country can be described as a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. In this accessible account of the country's politics, society and economics, the authors delve into the causes and proce…