Search results for: Halil M. Karaveli
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Turkey Transformed: The Origins and Evolution of Authoritarianism and Islamization Under the AKP
...an election did not mean losing power. From the presidential palace, the AKP’s de facto leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has ensured that no other political force is given a chance...
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A pattern of death: Turkey’s progressives are prey to the Leviathan
...Turkey’s democrats, leftists and minorities have always been prey to the sinister machinations of the multi-tentacle Leviathan that is in charge of the country. Arrayed against them have been...
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Turkey’s Military Rulers
...On July 28, Turkey’s president Erdogan broke off negotiations with Kurdish leaders and resumed hostilities against the Kurdish separatist movement. The article argues that this represents a defeat for...
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The Case for a Coalition with the CHP: the AKP Needs to Refurbish Its Image in the West
...The AKP’s loss of its absolute majority in the June 7 parliamentary election may paradoxically offer the regime the chance to refurbish its tarnished image in the West. That,...
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Turkish Democracy Is Not Out of the Woods
...for a presidential system on hold, at least for the moment. Yet the prospects for Turkish democracy are not necessarily any brighter today. The most likely outcome is a coalition...
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The Portentous Legacy of “New Turkey”: Sectarianism Invited
...The Islamists no longer occupy the moral high ground in Turkey. And Islamization has at least to some extent ceased to serve the interests of Turkish capitalism. Yet what...
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How the Kurds’ Power Play Backfired in Turkey
...Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s recent calls for the Kurdish militants to end the armed struggle inside Turkey seemed designed to show that they were on the brink of...
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How the Kurds’ Power Play Backfired in Turkey
...Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s recent calls for the Kurdish militants to end the armed struggle inside Turkey seemed designed to show that they were on the brink of...
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Erdogan’s Achilles’ Heel
...Over the course of last year, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has surmounted some major obstacles. He crushed urban protests last summer. He cracked down on the followers...
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Foreign Policy Reset Unlikely Under President Erdogan
...Turkey’s ambitious foreign policy has turned into a train wreck. Rather than dominating the Middle East, as its leaders had hoped, Turkey is more isolated and carries less regional...