The context of and the meaning conferred upon the local elections led it to be fought in a referandum-like atmosphere. Prior to the March 30 local...

Ahead of the 2014 local elections, the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), developed an aggressive outreach campaign to add new...

The civil war in Syria continues to devastate social and political structures, precipitating floods of refugees and surging populations of...

Over the past months, the crisis in Crimea presented the world with a case study on how rapidly national borders may shift in the 21st century. The...

As the third largest economy in the world, Japan cannot be overlooked in any analysis of Asia’s importance in international geopolitics and the...

The transformation of Turkish foreign policy has become a closely followed subject, fueling important debates on the underlying reasons, resources,...

Critical geopolitics, which is a relatively new field of study for scholars of international relations, seeks to understand and analyze how...

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...