Search results for: Halil M. Karaveli
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Can Turkey Change?
...with continuity than one would imagine. Similarly, the June 24 elections showed that Turkish electoral dynamics remain largely unchanged, even though the social democrat candidate Muharrem İnce’s campaign as well...
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Will the Kurdish Question Secure Erdoğan’s Re-election?
...to neutralize the potential power of the Kurdish political movement, by transferring power from the parliament to the presidency. The introduction of the presidential system is in large measure a...
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Turkey’s Emergency Election: The Primacy of Raison d’etat
...agreement, then I would have assumed my responsibility. The contacts of Temel Bey (the leader of the Felicity Party) have shown that no such agreement exists. I’m thus not a...
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Turkey’s Authoritarian Legacy
...secularist-nationalist founding ideology of the Turkish republic—and which the military embodied. According to the conventional narrative on Turkey, with which anyone who has only casually followed international politics during the...
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Can “Constitutional Engineering” Once Again Succeed in Pacifying Turkey?
...supposed to neutralize the Kurdish challenge. However, it may be that Turkey’s ethnic fissure may prevent it from developing either democracy or stable authoritarian rule. BACKGROUND: Turkish lawmakers on January...
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Turkey is Expecting a Restart with the U.S.
...The Kurdish question has, once again, complicated Turkish-American relations. The rhetoric of anti-Americanism remains useful to whip up and mobilize nationalist opinion. Yet, Erdoğan’s Islamists are not any aspiring...
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Assassination in Ankara: Russia, NATO, and Turkey’s Violent Politics
...On December 19, Mevlut Mert Altintas, a Turkish police officer, assassinated Andrei Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey. His action was apparently meant as retribution for Russian bombings in eastern...
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Följer Frankrike i Trumps spår?
...tidigare i år. Efter brexit och Donald Trumps seger i det amerikanska presidentvalet är det frågan om Frankrike, som väljer president om fem månader, står på tur att chocka världen....
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Azerbaijan’s Formula: Secular Governance and Civic Nationhood
...In January 2016, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev designated 2016 the “Year of Multiculturalism.” This took place at a time when Azerbaijan’s neighborhood has experienced a trend toward less rather...
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The “Logic” of Turkey’s Repression
...Gülen terror organization (FETÖ). Ironically, the prosecutor himself is accused of being a Gülenist, and the minister of justice deplored that the case had been entrusted to him. President Erdoğan...