The Republican People’s Party and the 2014 Local Elections in Turkey

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

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The AK Party: Dominant Party, New Turkey and Polarization

One of the fiercest electoral battles fought in the Turkish political history, the March 30, 2014 local elections yielded...

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The Structural Causes of Political Crisis in Turkey

The December 17th process was started allegedly by a political move by the Gülen movement, which, until recently, had been...

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Turkey and the Arab Spring Leadership in the Middle East

Some 15 to 20 years from today, it will be illuminating to examine how academic and policy circles read the period from...

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

External Voting: Mapping Motivations of Emigrants and Concerns of Host Countries

The paper explores the understanding of external voting in the context of the 2014 Turkish presidential election in which...

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Political Parties, the Political System and Turkey

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

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Turkey’s Choice

This article argues that recent upheavals in Turkey’s domestic and regional dynamics – the transition to a more...

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Anti-Turkey Sentiment in Europe during the Referendum Process

In each era, relations with Europe have constituted one of the most significant areas of Turkish foreign policy. The...

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Turkey’s Local Elections of 2009: Winners and Losers

This article presents a descriptive account of the March 2009 local elections in Turkey and offers a nation-wide and...

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The European Union and Political Cleavages in Turkey

This article examines how the Turks’ views of the European Union align with notions of a center-periphery cleavage in...

Wednesday, July 1, 2009