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EARLY PROJECTIONS FOR TURKEY’S NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Turkish domestic politics is always dynamic and excited although the country has been passing through rather difficult times due to the Covid-19 pandemic and economic difficulties. In this context, it should not be forgotten
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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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KEMALIST NATIONALISM AND TURKEY’S KURDISH QUESTION: ETHNICIZATION OF THE CIVIC IDENTITY
Introduction Kurdish question, Kurdish problem or the Kurdish opposition has always been a controversial issue in Turkey since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 both on national and international levels. The problem
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THE BIRTH OF PAN-TURKISM
Pan-Turkism can be defined as a movement that emerged in 1880s among the Turkic intellectuals of the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire, with the aim of cultural and political unification of all Turkic peoples.[1]
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