by Ian Mcgrail | Oct 23, 2019 | Salem State University
The departure of US forces from Syria serves as a capitulation to authoritarian forces and as a death knell to any hope of democratic peace brokering. President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria represents a betrayal of American alliances and...
by Ronen Schatsky | May 8, 2019 | University of Chicago
When Turkey’s voters upended expectations and favored the opposition in the March 31 municipal elections, the question was not how they pulled it off, but how long it would take President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to overturn the results. Just over a month later, he has...
by Victoria Malloy | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
Crowd at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rally after the 2016 coup attempt | Ozan Kose (AFP) The Istanbul mayoral election was one of a series of upsets for the AKP, Turkey’s ruling party, with the opposition candidate winning by just 13,000 votes. The AKP...
by Maya Ramirez | Apr 30, 2019 | Sacramento State University
By Maya Ramirez Turkey these days, in particular, is one of the most socially and politically polarized societies in the world. The secular versus the religious conservatives being the most contemporary and most pertinent division in Turkey. In addition to severe...
by Charlotte Bairey | Apr 26, 2019 | University of Chicago
The recent upholding of a Turkish court’s decision to convict dissenting journalists demonstrates that, in the case of Turkey, the use of explicitly anti-democratic politics is woven in with a subtler form of authoritarian control. The use of these more explicit...
