Search results for: Halil M. Karaveli
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La Turquie, est-elle destinée à durer ?
...La Turquie était censée représenter un « modèle » pour le Moyen-Orient. Pour l’Occident en quête d’un antidote à l’islamisme, le pays a incarné les espoirs de laïcité et...
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Is Turkey at War with the “Islamic State?”
...euphemism for Turkey’s new old war against the Kurdish movement. The forces behind the terrorism that has struck Turkey during the last six months will in all probability never be...
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Turkey the Sentinel — With a License for Authoritarian Rule
...The interplay of Western interests and internal Turkish dynamics has more often boosted authoritarianism than democracy in Turkey. Turkey’s strategic value as a “sentinel” during the Cold War gave...
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Turkey’s Future: If not a “Big Finland,” Maybe a “Small China?”
...the military has bolstered it further. The collusion of Erdoğan and the military entrenches authoritarianism. But the war with the Kurds threatens to become a threat to the stability of...
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Violence Saved AKP’s Power, but the Regime needs Peace with the Kurds
...The combination of military and deep state operations has rescued the power of the AKP, restoring its majority in parliament. Now, it is in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s interest...
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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...