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Blood Beliefs and Ballots The Management of Kurdish Nationalism in
Blood, Beliefs and Ballots: The Management of Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey, 2007-2009

Robert Olson has been a pioneering and prolific scholar of Kurdish nationalism. In Blood, Beliefs and Ballots, he analyzes...

Thursday, April 1, 2010

The New Leader for the Old CHP Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
The New Leader for the Old CHP: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

The CHP constitutes a crucial place in Turkish political life. From its establishment to its closure after the military...

Friday, October 1, 2010

Turkey at the Crossroads From Change with Politics as Usual
Turkey at the Crossroads: From “Change with Politics as Usual” to Politics with Change as Usual

The article analyzes the new roadmap for Turkey after the summer 2011 elections as not a “resumption” of unfinished...

Saturday, October 1, 2011

The Electoral Success of the AKP Cause for Hope and
The Electoral Success of the AKP: Cause for Hope and Despair

The 2011 elections marked the emergence of the AKP as a political brand that is likely to win all the elections in the...

Saturday, October 1, 2011

The 2011 Elections and the Kurdish Question1
The 2011 Elections and the Kurdish Question1

This essay argues that the 2011 election results point to a number of important conclusions concerning the Kurdish...

Saturday, October 1, 2011

The Applicability of the Turkish Model to Morocco The Case
The Applicability of the “Turkish Model” to Morocco: The Case of the Parti de la Justice et du Développement (PJD)

The “Turkish model,” in the form of a marriage between moderate Islam and democracy, the AKP’s electoral success and the...

Sunday, July 1, 2012

An Alternative to the Turkish Model for the Emerging Arab
An Alternative to the “Turkish Model” for the Emerging Arab Democracies

The political and economic success of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) has generated extensive discussion...

Monday, October 1, 2012

Turkey s Kurdish Conflict Pathways to Progress
Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict: Pathways to Progress

This paper discusses the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, within the context of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. What...

Monday, October 1, 2012

European Views of Turkish Foreign Policy
European Views of Turkish Foreign Policy

This article examines how the European elite views new parameters of Turkey’s increasing activism in the Middle East with...

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Understanding the AK Party s Identity Politics A Civilizational Discourse
Understanding the AK Party’s Identity Politics: A Civilizational Discourse and its Limitations

The AK Party seeks to respond to four challenges stemming from three confrontations (Islamism, Kemalism, and regional...

Tuesday, January 1, 2013


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