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Spatial politics in Istanbul: turning points in contemporary Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jeremy F. Walton
Published in Turkish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Erdoğan: a graphic biography: the rise of Turkey’s modern autocrat Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Paul Kubicek
Published in Turkish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The instrumentalization of post-truth politics in Turkey: the case of the 2023 elections Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Oğuz Ufuk Haksever, Ahmet Sözen
The global rise of populism has led to efforts to create an ‘alternative truth’ to support populist political aims. This is recently seen in Turkey in the use of post-truth political discourse by t...
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Between ‘Cultural richness’ and ‘useful enemy’: the securitization and instrumentalization of Christians in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Nukhet Ahu Sandal, Ahmet Erdi Ozturk
This article employs interviews and primary and secondary sources to examine the discrimination, securitization, and instrumentalization faced by four main Christian denominations throughout Turkis...
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The mother, the politician, and the guerilla Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Marco Nilsson
Published in Turkish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Turkish–Greek relations: foreign policy in a securitisation framework Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Bilge Azgın
Published in Turkish Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The AKP and stealth Islamization in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sebnem Gumuscu
This article argues that the AKP has dismantled secularism in Turkey through stealth Islamization. Defined as incremental and top-down Islamization of social and political life, this process entail...
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Electoral dynamics, new nationalisms, and party positions on Syrian refugees in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Sefa Secen, Serhun Al, Bekir Arslan
When and under what conditions do ideologically similar nationalist parties adopt different positions and discourses about refugees and immigrants? We address this question by examining nationalist...
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The Politics of Education in Turkey: Islam, Neoliberalism and Gender Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Nadya Amalia Putri Hapsari
Published in Turkish Studies (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2024)
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Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: a critical history Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Bilge Yesil
Published in Turkish Studies (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2024)
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The late Ottoman era and its legacy for nursing in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ronen Segev
Reforms in the late Ottoman era had dramatic effects on health, education, and gender roles. Women had been midwives and nurses in the imperial palace since the early modern period, but few had pub...
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Introduction: Quo Vadis Turkey? Encounters with sustainable patriarchy and resistance of women Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Birgül Demirtaş, Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz
This article introduces a Special Section on sustainable patriarchy in Turkey. It places developments in Turkey within a wider context of global anti-gender movements, in which gender functions as ...
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Perceptions of male scholars toward gender: reconsidering sustainable patriarchy in Turkish academia Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Birgül Demirtaş
There is an increasing number of works on the gendered nature of Turkish academia. However, most of the research is focused on experiences of female academics. There is a gap in the literature on p...
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Examination of the Filyos Valley Project from the governance approach Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Rahman Dağ, Rabia Büyükpınar
This study aims to fill this gap by examining the Filyos Valley Project in terms of a governance approach. Based on semi-structured elite interviews, it concludes that the Filyos Valley Project was...
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Film Heritage: the online film archive portal of Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, General Directorate of Cinema Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Serkan Şavk
In this review article, I focus on the online portal of Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, General Directorate of Cinema. This portal which provides open access to the institution’s film arch...
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The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Alpkan Birelma, Ebru Işıklı, Huseyin Deniz Sert
Under authoritarian neoliberalism, Turkey has seen the number of legal strikes plummet since the mid-1990s. Alongside deepening authoritarianism, the AKP government banned nearly all legal strikes ...
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Obscurantist governance in Turkey: information disclosure and governmental capacity Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Huseyin Zengin, Hakan Ovunc Ongur
This article offers a conceptualization for a type of governance that is based on the issue-specific capacity of a government and the barriers erected by this government on the public to access inf...
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A political game?: the dispute over the Canal Istanbul project Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Ezgi Pehlivanli, Hande Eslen-Ziya
This study aims to understand how ideologies become embedded in political projects through strategies of legitimation aimed at justifying specific ideas, beliefs, and emotions. By using the politic...
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Civic and political integration of migrants with minority backgrounds: Turkey-origin migrants in the United Kingdom Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Meryem Ay Kesgin
This study argues that minorities have higher in-group consciousness and adaptability developed through uneven interaction with the majority. Once migrated, their collective experiences are transfe...
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Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention: international human rights regime vis-à-vis authoritarian survival Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Tuğba Bayar
This article traces the raison d’être for Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. It draws upon two bodies of literature: international human rights regimes (IHRR) and authoritarian survi...
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Intellectual activism and pivotal paradigms in casting the model woman of the early Turkish Republic: the voices of Şükûfe Nihal and Nezihe Muhittin Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Ş. Akile Zorlu, Gökten Doğangün
Feminist historiography on the late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican era treats female women’s rights advocates typically as merely activists or literary figures and rarely focuses on their int...
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‘My shop, my self’: independent women shopkeepers and their empowerment struggles Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Gül Özsan
This article examines the empowerment struggles of female shopkeepers in a district in Istanbul, focusing upon the creation of autonomous women’s space, the construction of entrepreneurial/occupati...
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Considering Kemalist secularization process through the eyes of the ordinary Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Ilbey C. N. Ozdemirci
While the dominant narrative of Turkey's secularism process is discussed in terms of the Kemalist leadership’s regulation of social life in a top-down manner, this article focuses on the practices ...
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Turkey’s political leaders: authoritarian tendencies in a democratic state Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Onur Bakiner
Published in Turkish Studies (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa under the AKP: an empirical analysis Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Hasan Yönten, Robert A. Denemark
Turkish foreign policy under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been the subject of much change, especially as regards relations with the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MEN...
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Rediscovering Turkish Jewish heritage: The Club as a teaching moment in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Senem B. Çevik, Esra Aydın Kılıç
Turkish Jewish culture is largely unknown within Turkey due to various reasons, including demographic and historical factors. Negative stereotypes about Jews in Turkish film and television have fur...
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Democracy or authoritarianism: Islamist governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Esen Kirdiş
Published in Turkish Studies (Vol. 24, No. 5, 2023)
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Liberalism: the missing piece in Turkey’s political development Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Paul Kubicek
ABSTRACT Prominent themes in Turkey’s political development are modernization and Westernization, notions that carry with them a particular teleology in terms of expected political outcomes. While Turkey has, over several decades, modernized in several respects, Westernization has arguably been much more limited, particularly in terms of embracing political liberalism. This paper scrutinizes its failure
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Divergent developmental performance of Turkey and South Korea: an appraisal from political economy perspective Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 M. Mustafa Erdoğdu
ABSTRACT Turkey’s per capita income was nearly three times South Korea’s in 1962. Dramatic change has been observed since then. South Korea has transformed into an innovative economy approaching the global technology frontier in only a few decades. Turkey, on the other hand, has attained limited success with missed opportunities and has fallen behind. This article asks why this spectacular success
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Introduction: reflections on the centenary of the Republic of Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Paul Kubicek
ABSTRACT This article briefly introduces the rationale and content of a Special Issue of Turkish Studies that reflects on Turkey’s past, present, and future in light of the Republic’s centenary in 2023. It suggests that while Turkey can celebrate many accomplishments over the last century, the country continues to face a number of pressing political, economic, and social challenges.
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Dissident women’s organizations as a counter-hegemonic actor in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Melisa Gündüz, Funda Gençoğlu
Could the Turkish women’s movement, which has a strong reaction mechanism, be a constituent actor of counter-hegemony? The main reasons behind this question are the women’s movement’s deep-rooted h...
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Debating voter defection in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Evren Balta, Seda Demiralp, Selva Demiralp
This study examines patterns of voter defection from Turkey’s incumbent AKP amid major economic and democratic decline. As in other electoral autocracies, defectors constitute a small but political...
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Contestation of the global norm against violence against women in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Marella Bodur Ün
This article contributes to recent research on norms by highlighting the normative agency of non-Western, local recipients of global norms and the plurality of local responses to global norm diffus...
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Military might: a domestic economy explanation of Turkish foreign policy Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Sabri Ciftci
Turkish foreign policy has taken a military turn in recent years. Turkey is now a major arms exporter, it hosts military bases in its neighborhood and beyond, and has engaged in conflicts in Syria ...
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The AKP, religion, and political values in contemporary Turkey: implications for the future of democracy Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Birol A. Yeşilada
ABSTRACT The Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002 with the promise of reforms to further democratic consolidation in Turkey. At that time, the AKP represented a rainbow coalition of individuals from the previous Islamist parties and many liberal democrats who were fed up with the failures of old secular political parties. The Turkish public shared their frustrations and overwhelmingly
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Turkey’s security role in the Gulf region: exploring the case of a newcomer Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Ali Bakir
This study explores Turkey as a newcomer to Gulf security. It addresses why Turkish decision-makers want Turkey to play an elevated security role in the Gulf. It offers a holistic yet detailed outl...
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Only game in town? the persistence of competitive authoritarian regimes in modern Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Onur Bakiner
Why do so many regimes remain competitive authoritarian? This article argues that institutional path dependence explains the persistence of competitive authoritarian regimes in which electoral comp...
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Turkey’s asylum policies over the last century: continuity, change and contradictions Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Kemal Kirişci, Ayselin Yıldız
ABSTRACT This article explores Turkey’s century-long asylum policies by highlighting two enduring policy considerations. The first is Turkey's process of convergence with the norms and principles of the global refugee regime. The second is the persistent practice of granting refugees protection of a temporary nature. These two policy considerations are discussed by employing the conceptual frameworks
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Facing new security threats in an era of global transformations: Turkey's challenges of energy security, climate change and sustainability Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Şuhnaz Yılmaz
ABSTRACT Turkey's geopolitical position at the intersection of numerous conflict-laden regions has compelled Ankara to prioritize hard security concerns in defining its foreign and domestic policies. While these concerns will maintain their significance, new global threats and opportunities, particularly in energy security, climate change, and sustainability, necessitate a reconceptualization of security
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A retrospective study of patriarchy in Turkish politics: political masculinities and female party leaders in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Bezen Balamir Coşkun
The patriarchal nature of Turkish society reflects itself in Turkish political culture, within which various social mechanisms have reproduced patriarchal relations. This study is designed as a ret...
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From activism to resilience: the Turkish constitutional court in comparative perspective Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Yasushi Hazama
ABSTRACT This article discusses the behavior of the Constitutional Court in Turkey. As the highest court in the country, it is responsible for many decisions that have shaped the course of Turkish politics over the past six decades. It begins with a brief overview of the institutional features of the Turkish Constitutional Court. It then looks at major arguments on constitutional review, including
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Victims of commemoration: the architecture and violence of confronting the past in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Zeynep Kezer
Published in Turkish Studies (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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The plight of Turkey’s minorities: what obstacles and opportunities exist for equal citizenship beyond the Republic’s centennial? Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Lenore G. Martin
ABSTRACT Turkey’s numerous issues with its main minority groups, Kurds, Alevis, Christians, and Jews, continue to disrupt its domestic peace and complicate its foreign relations. In building a nation the founders of the Republic and successive governments have sought to compel minority assimilation with harsh measures such as expulsion, deprivation of property, resettlement, and discrimination, while
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Turkey as a restrained middle power Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 H. Tarık Oğuzlu
ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed increasing questions regarding Turkey’s international orientation. Many have defined Turkey as an over-ambitious middle power, a categorization similar to traditional middle power identity, yet also evincing a strong determination on the part of Turkish decision makers to transform Turkey into a regional power that has the potential to become a great power sometime
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‘Make masculinity great again’: politics of marriage and neoconservatism in Turkey’s Islamic-oriented self-help discourse Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Feyda Sayan-Cengiz
This study looks into a rising realm within Turkey’s culture industry, namely Islamic-oriented self-help culture, and explores the marriage advice offered by Islamic self-help authors and therapist...
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Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Paul Kubicek
Published in Turkish Studies (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Historic missed opportunities and prospects for renewal: Turkey-EU relations in a post-Western order Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Ziya Öniş
ABSTRACT Turkish-European Union (EU) relations in the broader context of the transatlantic alliance have been one of the defining features of Turkish foreign policy in the post-war era. The article identifies elements of the cyclical nature of the relationship and missed opportunities, notably in the 1970s and the early 2000s, which have been costly both to Turkey and the EU. Domestic politics and
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A hundred years of flux: Turkish political regimes from 1921 to 2023 Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
ABSTRACT Turkish Republic was founded as a new state, a homeland for Turks, and on a Turkish identity that had yet to be created which would serve as the basis of the political community. This paper analyzes the overall regime properties of the Turkish political system in that period, which has been mired in legitimacy and national identity crises. This paper identifies the varying substance and style
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The anti-gender movement in Turkey: an analysis of its reciprocal aspects Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Tuba Kancı, Buşra Çelik, Yavuz Bülent Bekki, Umutcan Tarcan
The anti-gender movement has been publicly pursuing its quarrel against the social, academic, and political contexts of gender. Thus, it has also been constituting a basis of activism for fundament...
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The making of Turkish exceptionalism: the west, the rest and unreconciled issues from the past Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Lerna K. Yanık
ABSTRACT This article has two main goals. The first is to examine the role of politics of space and time in making Turkey’s international relations. The second is to answer a more general question: what happens to a non-Western state like Turkey that cannot eliminate ‘differences’ that mark that state as non-Western? My answer is that these states handle these ‘differences’ that do not entirely disappear
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Gender, radicalization, and patriarchy in Turkey: an analysis of women’s motivations and constraints when confronted with ISIS and the al-Nusra front Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Gülriz Şen, Başak Yavçan
This article locates Turkey in discussions of gender and violent extremism (VE), probes women’s diverse roles, motivations, and constraints for and against religious radicalization, and discusses t...
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Three turning points in the political development of modern Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Erik-Jan Zürcher
ABSTRACT This essay investigates the choices made by the Turkish political leadership at three crucial moments in the history of Turkey between World War I and the Cold War. It asks the question if viable alternatives to the chosen route were available, and to what extent the choices made reflected international developments of the time. The episodes looked at are the establishment of a nation-state
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The trajectory of a modified middle power: an attempt to make sense of Turkey’s foreign policy in its centennial Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Meliha Benli Altunışık
ABSTRACT This article explores the general characteristics of Turkey’s foreign policy in long durée by introducing the concept of a modified middle power. It argues that its historical legacy, the ambiguity of its regional belonging, and its real and constructed pivotal geography have modified Turkey’s ‘middlepowerness’ and led to its in-betweenness. As such, the Turkish Republic, in its 100 years
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An ‘alternative’ imagination of national identity in Turkey: the blue Anatolianists’ perception of culture, civilization, and the west Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Elif Gençkal Eroler
This article elaborates upon Blue Anatolianism as another form of supranationalism with which Turkish nationalism is linked. Having quite different arguments from other types of Anatolianisms and s...
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Contrasting theoretical approaches to Turkish foreign policy Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Paul Kubicek
ABSTRACT This article introduces a Special Issue dedicated to applying international relations theories to Turkish foreign policy. More specifically, it contrasts structural or neo-realist approaches with ideational or constructivist ones, suggests general strengths and shortcomings in each, and briefly suggests how both might apply to TFP. It also introduces the eight substantive articles in the Special
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Never quite making it: Turkey’s repeated attempts at political democracy Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Ilter Turan
ABSTRACT The article addresses the question of impediments to the consolidation of democratic governance in Turkey. Historical path dependence (weight of history), cultural bifurcation emanating from Turkey’s modernization strategy, the legacy of the single party experience, the choice of particular economic development policies, and the role of individual leaders are examined with a view to how each
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Governing contingencies by proxy: a governmentality approach on social supports in Istanbul under mutual uncertainty Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Ebru Tekin Bilbil, Özge Zihnioğlu
ABSTRACT Contingencies comprise immediate possibilities and aleatory interactions in the form of calculated responses to mutual uncertainties. While contingencies are critically important to governmental policies, yet they have been rarely considered in social analysis. The aim of this study is to analyze how the Covid-19 pandemic as a crisis has been governed both against and through contingencies
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Who receives clientelistic benefits? Social identity, relative deprivation, and clientelistic acceptance among Turkish voters Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Kerem Yıldırım
ABSTRACT Why do voters accept clientelism? Previous research suggests that poorer voters are more likely to accept clientelistic benefits. However, identities may moderate the effect of poverty through identity-based economic comparisons across groups. The role identity plays in partisanship, and dense ethnic identity networks may make it easier for parties to enforce clientelism among specific groups
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When does bureaucracy function in autocratizing regimes? the court of auditors in Turkey Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Digdem Soyaltin-Colella
ABSTRACT Turkey has experienced a radical political transformation within the last decade. The promising reforms of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in its early years have gradually given way to autocratic politics. The transition to a presidential regime has further widened the executive’s control over the institutional checks and bureaucratic accountability mechanisms. Yet, the Court of Auditors
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Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP): A Longue Durée Analysis Turkish Studies (IF 2.231) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Kursat Cinar, Meral Ugur-Cinar, Ali Acikgoz
ABSTRACT This article employs regressive and spatial analyses to understand the correlates of the CHP’s electoral support from the first competitive elections in 1950 to the present. We find that despite some continuities in its constituency, the CHP’s voter base has changed significantly with regards to key political and social dynamics such as the Kurdish vote, effective number of parties, and urbanization