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NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TURKISH POLITICS (OCTOBER 2024)
Following President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reelection in 2023, Turkish political life was expected to be stable. However, upon the extraordinary success of the main opposition party -pro-secular and pro-EU- CHP (Republican People’s Party) in
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JUDICIAL CRISIS IN TÜRKİYE
Although Türkiye successfully and peacefully organized presidential and parliamentary elections in May 2023 and the Turkish people decided to go on with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule and AK Parti’s lead in the parliament,
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DOÇ. DR. OZAN ÖRMECİ’DEN YENİ RAPOR: “2023 TURKISH ELECTIONS: WHAT IS AT STAKE, AND WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOLLOWING THE ELECTIONS?”
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Kurucu Genel Koordinatörü ve İstanbul Kent Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü Başkanı Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci, Slovakya merkezli düşünce kuruluşu Adapt Institute için 2023 Türkiye seçimlerini ve olası
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COUNTRIES HAVING SECULARISM AS A CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE
Introduction There is no questioning that countries implementing secularism and providing an equal approach to people from all religions or non-religious people have more chance to become democratic. There is no doubt that almost
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KEY ISSUES FOR 2023 TURKISH ELECTIONS
Turkey will organize two elections simultaneously in June 2023: presidential and parliamentary elections. These elections will not only determine the governing body of the country, but somehow the future of the country as well
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CALIPHATE DISCUSSIONS IN TURKEY
Introduction After a court decision that made the 1934 Presidential decree void, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan successfully converted Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) into a mosque from a museum.[1] The decision was welcomed and celebrated
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RETHINKING TURKEY’S KURDISH QUESTION
After the removal of immunity of parliamentarians, most of the deputies from pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) are now faced with the risk of losing their seats in the parliament in Turkey. This decision
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TURKISH CONSTITUTIONS (1921, 1924, 1961, 1982) IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Constitution as a dictionary definition means “the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed”[1]. There is no doubt that a constitution is the primary institutional
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