A New Version of Stigmatization: 'İslamist Rentierism'

Turkey is witnessing new versions of authoritarianism debates on its way to presidential elections.

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A New Version of Stigmatization 'İslamist Rentierism'
Gülenist Diaspora and the Discourse of Authoritarianism

Gülenist Diaspora and the Discourse of Authoritarianism

Turkey is faced with a public diplomacy problem which it has never faced before in all of its history: A diasporic opposition that is hierarchically organized and ruled from the USA.

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Is the approval of the regional autonomy really the case when the 2014 elections are considered? What do the 2014 elections tell us about the future of the peace process?

A critical political juncture in the wake of presidential and general elections will be held within less than a year.

Turkey has enough academic and intellectual capacity to identify the inconsistencies embedded in these biased neocolonial interventions. For fair and patient observers, Turkey continues to be a story of hope and transformative dynamism.

In the years after the AKP came to power in November 2002, however, an active struggle against the military-bureaucratic grip on politics led to the eradication of the old regime and a gradual democratisation of the political system.

Challenging Narratives and Remembering Syria

Is Assad really winning the war? And what does the victory look like for a regime that destroys its own country and has killed almost 200,000 people?

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Challenging Narratives and Remembering Syria
Taming the quot New Turkey quot

Taming the "New Turkey"

The discourse of "new Turkey" has repeatedly appeared during historical turning points of the Turkish Republic. It is used for the sake of different interests by local and foreign circles.

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The criminalization of the Gülen Movement in the context of the struggle with the parallel structure might conclude with the other-ization of the movement.

The MHP's inability to create a presence in metropolitan cities was the main cause of the party's dismay on March 30.

Politics in Turkey has been in normalization process in which different demands and identities come forward and the invisible becomes visible since 2002

Sisi will try to find some other threat perceptions to refocus dissent. While dealing with all those, the ghosts of Rabaa will continue haunt him in his political career.

Consequently, our political discussions cannot seem to free themselves from Kemalism and Third Worldism, which consist of two factors.

The opposition parties neither signal a structural and managerial change in their parties nor offer a different vision for the future in the event they lose the March 30 elections.

What is more important is that if the struggling actors switch to embracing and democratic statements, it is possible they will have already lost credibility in the eyes of the public.

The Gülen Movement represents an informal political force in Turkey that holds the country’s political leadership at gunpoint.

Which approach has shaped Iran’s understanding of foreign policy after the Revolution? What are the basic approaches to Iran’s “interest-based” foreign policy?

All of the Western media, having received their information from the same 20-30 top individuals, all of whom share the same point of view, paint a particular picture of Turkey.

Since January 2011, Arab regimes have also employed the terrorism card to maintain their grip on government.