by Laylah Gasca | Nov 20, 2023 | University of Memphis
Recep Erdogan has just won his third consecutive term as Turkey’s president, so what does this mean for Turkey’s democracy? What was once a thriving example of a steady democracy to its neighboring countries, is now facing its all-time low in terms of...
by Erem Bilgesu | Jan 5, 2023 | Sabanci University
Recently, the global rise of democratic regimes starting during the 1970s with the Third Wave of Democratization has came to a halt. This wave was then replaced by a rise in autocratic regimes throughout the globe. Many democracies began to decline, as autocracies...
by May Li | May 17, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
Turkey was once the beacon of democratic liberalism in the East, outside of the Western powers. However, under its current leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party, Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey became the prime example of democratic backsliding...
by Catherine Kasparyan | May 2, 2022 | Brown University
In April 2021, President Biden became the first U.S. President to refer to the systematic killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as a genocide, after years of Armenian Americans, Armenians around the world, and affiliated groups calling for this...
by Alin Khrimian | Apr 30, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
For years, Turkey was hailed as being an exemplary case of a rare, developing, and withstanding secular democracy in a Muslim-majority society. However, under the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his AKP party, Turkey has undergone a significant democratic...
