This article provides a general overview of Turkey’s relations with the Western Balkans during the AK Party government. Although the Western...

During the last decade international development assistance became an indispensable aspect of Turkish foreign policy. While expanding development...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the social and political causes of the Gezi protests, and their long- and short-term impact on Turkey’s...

The Gladio Scandal in Europe and, more recently, Turkey’s Ergenekon trials highlight the importance of hidden power networks behind the façade of...

This paper examines the position of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) during the Arab revolutions of 2010-2013. In the early 1990s, the...

Do perceptions of Muslim communities differ among receiving European societies? Are attitudes towards Euro-Turks more critical than other groups?...

Turkey’s 1982 Constitution does not reflect the values of modern constitutionalism. Originally, the Constitution maintained a state-centered,...

During the 1990s, political uncertainties in Turkey had negative effects that left the economy vulnerable to public and foreign debt due to high...

The remarkable transformation of Turkish civil-military relations since the AK Party’s rise to power has not led to total democratization in this...

The AK Party has been a leading reform actor with particular emphasis on education. AK Party governments implemented educational reforms to...

his paper discusses the conflict between the AK Party government and the Gezi activism with reference to hegemony, power-resistance dichotomy,...

In the last two decades, Kyrgyzstan has searched for stability while swinging on a pendulum between democratic reforms and suppression of...

This paper compares various macro-prudential and policy tools, set against various aspects of the countries’ recent political economies, used by...

The international system embarked on a process of transformation to a more heterogeneous configuration and debates of multipolarity acquired...

This commentary tries to study the current socio-economic crisis in Spain and the end of the political era which began with transition to democracy...

Turkish foreign policy has changed substantially within the last decade. Even though its relationship with the West still has significance,...

This article explores the strategic importance Turkey holds to the European Union and how Ankara could contribute to the EU’s achieving the status...

For many decades, the Arab despots would serve the Western interests in the region in return for a Western disregard to democracy policies in their...

Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the so-called ‘Turkish model’ has become a key ingredient of the discourse of democratization in the Middle...

The article analyses the use of Ottoman past as a central theme in Turkish politics since the 1960s. It discusses how the revivalist discourse...

The developments in early 2013 generated expectations that the almost three decades old armed conflict between the Turkish state and PKK would...

In 2009 the Turkish government launched a novel initiative to tackle the Kurdish question. The initiative soon ran into deadlock, only to be...

After a major wave of democratization over the last decade, the stalemate in Turkey’s reform process and the rising concerns about ‘creeping...

Turkish foreign policy under the AK Party government has long drawn scrutiny from a wide range of analysts. The Syrian uprising has raised the...