Watching the Horizon: Turkey's Beleaguered Alevis
By Gareth Jenkins (vol. 7, no. 11 of the Turkey Analyst) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attempts to tighten his grip on power by stoking social tensions and propagating conspiracy theories have...
View ArticleTurkey Remains an "Angry Nation" But Could Still Serve as a Democratic...
By Kerem Öktem (vol. 4, no. 5 of the Turkey Analyst) Turkey remains an “Angry nation”, tormented by the many ghosts of its history, some of which still lurk in the shadows. Its political system is...
View ArticleWill Turkey's Next Constitution be a Societal Covenant Imbued With Respect...
By Halil M. Karaveli (vol. 4, no. 7 of the Turkey Analyst) Agreeing upon the rules for how they are going to live together, with mutual respect for differences, is the fundamental challenge that faces...
View ArticleHas Erdogan Reached His "Democratic Limits"?
By Halil M. Karaveli (vol. 4, no. 23 of the Turkey Analyst) Internal and external dynamics no longer compel Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to transcend his democratic limits. It was the...
View ArticleA House Divided Against Itself: the Deteriorating State of Media Freedom in...
By Gareth Jenkins (vol. 5, no. 3 of the Turkey Analyst) Most international attention has focused on the more than 100 journalists who are now in jail in Turkey as a result of what they have written or...
View ArticleThe Snake That Doesn't Touch Me: Turkey's Special Authority Courts
By Gareth H. Jenkins (vol. 5, no. 5 of the Turkey Analyst) On February 7, 2012, Sadrettin Sarıkaya, a public prosecutor with “special authority”, attempted to question several high-ranking serving and...
View ArticleNo Escape From Authoritarianism? Turkey Suffers From the Lack of a...
By Halil M. Karaveli (vol. 5, no. 6 of the Turkey Analyst) Is there a third way for Turkey, one that would offer an escape from the statist and nationalist authoritarianism to which both Kemalism and...
View ArticleThe Failed Promise of AKP: The Bourgeois Revolution That Never Was
By Halil Karaveli (vol. 7, no. 19 of the Turkey Analyst) Liberals expected the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to be a democratic reformist bourgeois party, because unlike its predecessors of the...
View ArticleHitler’s Infatuation with Atatürk Revisited
By Halil Karaveli (vol. 8, no. 1 of the Turkey Analyst) Atatürk was Hitler’s “shining star in the darkness.” The Third Reich instituted a veritable cult of Atatürk. The Nazi admiration provides a lens...
View ArticleCan TÜSİAD Help Save Turkish Democracy?
By Halil Karaveli (vol. 8, no. 3 of the Turkey Analyst) The historical record of TÜSİAD, The Association of Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen, as an agent for democratization is anything but...
View ArticleThe Case for a Coalition with the CHP: the AKP Needs to Refurbish Its Image...
By Halil Karaveli (vol. 8, no. 14 of the Turkey Analyst) The AKP’s loss of its absolute majority in the June 7 parliamentary election may paradoxically offer the regime the chance to refurbish its...
View ArticleTurkey Is Not Going to Be “Normalized” Under the AKP’s leadership
By Toni Alaranta (vol. 8, no. 14 of the Turkey Analyst) There is widespread expectation that “normalization” and democratic consolidation will follow the June 7 election, which deprived the ruling...
View ArticleTurkey and China: Merging Realpolitik with Idealism
By Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak (vol. 8, no. 15 of the Turkey Analyst) Despite the importance and improvement of multi-dimensional Turkish-Chinese relations, Turkish decision makers have had difficulties...
View ArticleTurkey Is Not Going to Be “Normalized” Under the AKP’s leadership
By Toni Alaranta (vol. 8, no. 14 of the Turkey Analyst) There is widespread expectation that “normalization” and democratic consolidation will follow the June 7 election, which deprived the ruling...
View ArticleCan Turkey Change?
By Halil Karaveli July 16, 2018 Though not impossible, change remains an unlikely prospect in Turkey. Seen in a larger historical perspective, the switch from parliamentarianism to presidential rule...
View ArticleThe Crackdown on HDP: Sustaining Authoritarianism with Ethnic Polarization
By Halil Karaveli December 2, 2019 By the end of November 2019, 24 out of 69 mayors in Kurdish cities in Turkey had been dismissed and 19 had been arrested. The Turkish regime exploits nationalism to...
View ArticleRich and Poor: What Will Turkey's New Polarization Bring?
By Halil Karaveli January 30, 2020 Turkey is facing a new polarization between rich and poor. Inequalities in income and wealth have grown dramatically. As developments in other countries in recent...
View ArticleThe İmamoğlu sentence: Will Istanbul Share the Fate of Diyarbakır?
By Halil Karaveli January 12, 2022 The political destruction of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is ultimately meant to demonstrate that the alliance, supported by the Kurdish political movement,...
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