The history of modern Turkey can be summarized as the history of military interventions. In the late Ottoman times, the army was the first and foremost...
Each year, the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy assembles hundreds of courageous dissidents and human rights activists, diplomats, journalists and student leaders to shine...
The concept of politics has its roots in the name of Aristotle’s classic work, Politiká, which introduced the Greek term politiká (meaning ‘affairs of the cities’)....
The first case of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic in Turkey was seen in Istanbul and was shared with the public with the statement of Health Minister...
Turkey’s human rights record has been on decline in recent years. Women’s rights issue is at the heart of this debate. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has...
This is the last piece of my “Turkish politics” article series. In this piece, I will try to address the role of civil society in Turkish...
The media-politics relationship in Turkey has been one of the most important factors shaping the quality of democracy. Media is seen as the “fourth estate” in...
The state-religion relationship and secularism policies in Turkey have been of a scholarly endeavor for both local and international researchers. While analyzing democracy journey and modernization...
Since the transition to multiparty democracy in 1950, Turkish political life witnessed two fully fledged direct military coups in 1960 and in 1980 and a memorandum...
“…Turkish Army is determined to defend the unitary secular state founded by Ataturk… Protection of fundamental characteristics of the republic cannot be considered as an intervention...
