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...
by Ian Henson | Apr 21, 2019 | University of Chicago
Constitutions are widely recognized as a critical or essential component to a well-functioning democracy. Although many would agree that the U.S. Constitution is not a perfect document, it has existed as the U.S.’s governing document for over two-hundred years, albeit...
by Gabriel Moran | Apr 11, 2019 | Suffolk University
Around the world, there has been an attack on the media in countries everywhere that experience democratic backsliding. In places like Turkey, Venezuela, Poland and many more, the media remains under attack in most places around the world, with the only states with...
