Search results for: Gareth H. Jenkins
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Post-Putsch Narratives and Turkey’s Curious Coup
...a combination of opportunism and fear, President Tayyip Erdoğan has seized on the putsch to launch a massive crackdown that could severely destabilize an already very fragile country. Background On...
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The Sound of Footsteps: Erdogan’s New Enemies Within
...Former President Abdullah Gül’s recent decision to adopt a higher public profile and meet with known dissidents from inside the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has triggered a...
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Dreams and Nightmares: Turkey’s Unspoken Drift towards Civil War
...The sustained clashes in urban areas that have wracked southeast Turkey in recent months mark a new stage in the decades-old insurgency of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and...
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Stoking the Fires: Crises, Conspiracies and Miscalculations
...Turkey’s many pressing problems, not least its international isolation and the cleavages in Turkish society. Instead, in the weeks since its election victory, the AKP has continued with the policies...
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Erdogan’s Pyrrhic Victory: The Turkish Election and the Prospects for a Presidential System
...The November 1 general election was a victory for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rather than for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Although he is likely to try to...
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The Ankara Bombings: Collusion, Incompetence or Willful Indifference?
...The near simultaneous double suicide bombings that killed at least 105 participants in a peace rally in Ankara on October 10 were the worst terrorist attack in Turkish history....
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Taking it to the streets: Turkey’s rising social tensions
...The recent spate of violent protests by Turkish ultranationalists – including attempted lynchings of ethnic Kurds – and the attacks by government supporters on the Hürriyet newspaper have reinforced...
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Erdoğan’s War: The Causes and Consequences of the Upsurge in Kurdish Violence
...yet be to come. The fear is that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may order an even harsher crackdown over the weeks ahead and that, with its rural units depleted by...
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Turkey’s Kurds and the Post-election Political Landscape
...devastating blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s hopes of replacing the country’s parliamentary system with an autocratic presidential one in which all political power was concentrated in his own hands....
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Lies and Videotape: Trucks, Weapons and Turkey’s Spiraling Descent
...newspaper to be sentenced to life in prison after the daily published evidence apparently showing that the Turkish government had lied about sending weapons to extremist groups in Syria....