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TURKEY’S 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: ERDOGAN VS. MUHARREM INCE
Turkey will have its joint parliamentary and Presidential (first round) elections on June 24, 2018. The second round of Presidential election will take place -if necessary- on July 8, 2018. Candidates of major political
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EARLY ELECTIONS IN TURKEY
Turkey will have its joint Presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24, 2018. The decision was declared by Turkish President Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after a meeting with Nationalist Action Party (MHP) leader Mr.
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EARLY COMMENTS FOR TURKEY’S 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Turkey will have its first joint parliamentary and Presidential election on November 3, 2019 following the local election on March 24, 2019. Although it is still too early to comment on these elections, I
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GOOD PARTY IS ESTABLISHED IN TURKEY
A new right-wing political party was established few days ago in Turkey by the former Minister of Interior and the Vice Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Mrs. Meral Akşener with the name
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EXPLAINING THE RISE OF ERDOGAN AND ISLAMIC TURKEY FROM HUNTINGTON’S PERSPECTIVE
Introduction Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008)[1] was a prominent American political scientist and academic. Huntington spent more than half a century at Harvard University and worked as the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for
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YRD. DOÇ. DR. OZAN ÖRMECİ’DEN YENİ MAKALE: “MILITARY COUPS: DO THEY STILL MATTER IN THE 21 ST CENTURY AND THE TURKISH EXAMPLE”
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü ve Beykent Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi (İngilizce) bölümü öğretim üyesi Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci’nin “Military Coups: Do They Still Matter in the 21st Century and
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ERBIL NOTES (MAY 2017)
I participated into an international conference (AEC17 – Administration and Economics Conference 2017) organized by Lebanese French University and Erbil Polytechnic University last week and had chance to visit Erbil city once again for
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YRD. DOÇ. DR. OZAN ÖRMECİ’DEN YENİ KİTAP: “TURKEY AND THE WORLD”
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü ve Beykent Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi (İngilizce) bölümü öğretim üyesi Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci’nin Türkiye politikası, Türk Dış Politikası ve dünya siyaseti üzerine İngilizce makalelerinin
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PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM APPROVED IN TURKEY
Turkish people voted slightly (% 51,41 “yes” votes against % 48,59 “no” votes) in favor of the constitutional changes proposed by the governing Islamist Justice and Development Party (JDP-AKP) and Turkish nationalist Nationalist Action
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TURKEY: NO LONGER A DEMOCRACY
Pro-Kurdish parliamentarians being dragged into police cars[1], assassination attempts[2] and police raids[3] are taking place towards critical journalists, death-penalty is prepared to be introduced to the legal system[4] and a purge against moderate Islamist
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