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The European Union speaks of promotion of human rights, liberal democratic values and its influence in the world. Yet, by investigating the EU's foreign policy, we can find significant discrepancies between what is rhetorically stated in official statements and how the Union's r…

Though market liberalization has certainly had a tremendous impact on Turkey, much of the country's recent success is due to the active role of the government in promoting economic growth. Whereas a multitude of divisions long stymied coordinated efforts between business and the…

Since the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) victory and government in 2002, Turkey entered a new phase in its history and witnessed major changes in all social, economic, and political aspects. Turkish foreign policy went through huge transformations and the new AKP governme…

The thesis aims at exploring the logic of political survival in Turkish politics with analysing the case of Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi-AKP). This study consists of two stages. The research methodology and literature review of this research are exam…

In an increasingly desecularizing world the discussions that surround the role of religion in public life continue to pose fundamental questions to the process of democratization in general and to the matters pertinent to civic engagement, rights discourse and equality, in parti…