The Revenge of the Tahrir Revolution
In a period where the models of administration for the Islamic world are opened to discussion, the model of one of the rooted movements of the world, the Muslim Brotherhood, is not given an opportunity to be tested.
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Legitimacy Wars in Egypt
Unless the Islamists are accepted as legitimate political actors and as long as the Islamism is asaulted as a kind of pathology, democratization will not be possible in any country where the tradition of Islamist politics is an important actor.
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Reconciliation of the parties, at this point, means either the resignation of President Morsi or an early election for the presidency.
The Gezi Park phenomenon is the first test of the government against a new type of political citizenship that has made an attempt to take charge of political representation somehow.
The votes to the Alliance for Employment, Prosperity and Integration led by the Democratic Party (DP) of Albania remaining around 40 percent mean that the 2-term PD ruling is soon to end in the country.
Since the beginning of the protests, not only the composition but also the motive and aim of the protesters have gradually changed.
Taksim in-Between Spontaneity and Conspiracy
The Syria crisis, among else, became a mechanism to tame TurkeyÂ’s self-confidence in the region. Similarly, the riots in Taksim and elsewhere in the 2nd phase were used by some regional and global actors to give a clear warning to Turkey.
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Lessons Learned From Taksim
What will shape politics and the society in Turkey from now on is not the identity of those who were in Taksim, but who they represented both qualitatively and quantitatively.
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If we are seriously to talk about the last two weeks, there is nothing but a huge political inaptitude in front of us.
Are the current protests in Turkey the product of democratisation that has taken place over the last decade?
Protests constitute not only a revolt against the AK Party but also a reaction against the lack of efficient opposition.
In its capacity as a wake-up call for all, the demonstrations will go down in TurkeyÂ’s political history as a constructive, democratic statement if all parties work together to establish common ground for dialogue and progress.
Hezbollah will face its real crisis when it completes its transformation from a respected regional actor to a lonely actor.
The classical democracy paradigm has been shaken by the position of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the government and the opposition have exchanged their roles in terms of political reflexes.
The military regime, after having kept its cool during the revolution and the parliamentary elections, went on the offensive right before the presidential elections and intervened in politics.
