This study analyzes the peace and reconciliation initiatives of the AK Party governments (2002 until 2017) to address the Kurdish Question, with a...

This article aims to evaluate the 15 years of leadership of the AK Party in terms of health and health policies using the Health System Framework...

The Ennahda Movement, whose foundations were laid in Tunisia at the beginning of the 1970s by Rached Ghannouchi and his friends, has continued its...

Egypt under President Abdel Fatteh el-Sisi appears committed to avoid falling into the contentious Sunni-Shia divide by reconfiguring its security...

In a time when our globalizing world is confronted by a deepening global turmoil, political instability and multiplying security threats have set...

This article argues that recent upheavals in Turkey’s domestic and regional dynamics – the transition to a more crisis-ridden foreign policy around...

This article analyzes the fluctuating course of the Turkey-U.S. relationship with a special focus on Barack Hussein Obama’s presidency. When Obama...

Turkey adopted a new strategy for its European Union accession process in 2014, in an attempt to revitalize its relations with the EU. Turkish...

Energy relations between Turkey and Russia provide an excellent example of how energy and politics interrelate in countries with a historically...

In the case of Turkey, competing foreign policy perspectives have always represented a central issue in the ideological clash between Kemalism and...

In this article, we present and reflect on the role of the Armed Forces in the reparation of the victims of the Colombian conflict. The article...

Much like Iran’s nuclear program, scholars and policy makers are largely puzzled to understand Iran’s intentions in developing its ballistic...

The Ukrainian crisis altered the security paradigm in Europe by forcing NATO to revise its stance towards Russia, as it employed a wide array of...

In 2015, Kazakhstan celebrated 550 years of Kazakh statehood. The extraordinary interest in these events, both among Kazakh officials and some...

Debates on the system of government have been on the political agenda in Turkey since the 1960s, gaining momentum in recent years. Disengagement...

Debate over the government system has occupied Turkey’s political and constitutional agenda for many years. Yet the discussions that have taken...

Even though they are not the sole forms of organization in a democratic system, political parties constitute the most effective bodies of people’s...

Countries often debate the issue of constitutional reform. Typically, such debates focus on whether a country should have a presidential,...

On 15 July 2016, Turkey experienced a milestone in its political history. An entity, judicially and officially recognized as the Gülenist Terror...

This paper sets out the historical background to the July 15 coup attempt. It outlines the Turkish armed forces’ age-old interventionist tendencies...

Turkey went through a civil rights movement, or a “silent revolution,” under the AK Party governments between 2002 and 2013, in which the legally...

This study aims to measure the social perception created by the impact of the July 15 coup attempt. The social picture that emerged during and...

This article explores the processes involved in the emergence of rival social imaginaries, as they develop in a cultural ecosystem, relating it to...

The current research has the purpose of analyzing Turkey’s approach toward Latin America and the Caribbean region through the prism of soft power...