Departing from the Japanese-American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s contention in his “The End of History” thesis...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Macron represents himself as the voice of the liberals against authoritarian nationalists for the 2019 European Parliament...
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Most people still are in the opinion that Turkey owes much to Adnan Menderes due to his struggle for democracy, because...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Turkey will reach the moment of political normalcy and Erdogan will then retreat to a less prominent position. Under...
Friday, May 18, 2018
The shift to a presidential system may be the most critical step in institutionalizing democratic politics in Turkey. It...
Saturday, May 5, 2018
The CHP chairman Kilicdaroglu does not seem to know yet if he will run himself as a candidate or nominate the names like...
Monday, April 23, 2018
While Egypt witnessed a guideline example of an undemocratic election process, the Western “democracies” such as the U.S....
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Interestingly however, the report emphasizes that descriptive representation (the number of Muslim MPs) does not directly...
Friday, April 13, 2018
While the AK Party cannot be blamed for reducing democracy to elections alone, it is accepted that the governing party has...
Friday, March 23, 2018
The presidential elections in Egypt in March 2018 is a new step toward consolidating the oppressive regime, which was...
Monday, March 19, 2018
Following the recent coup attempt in Turkey, public and private institutions made public statements condemning the coup...
Sunday, July 16, 2017
FETO, a religious criminal cult and led by the US based cleric Fetullah Gülen, is a bizarre political phenomenon. It is...
Thursday, July 27, 2017
It is becoming more and more obvious, what would happen if an EU national politician would be detained in Turkey. However,...
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Anti-West sentiments increase among millions of supporters of Erdoğan and even those who oppose him. This rising hate is...
Thursday, March 23, 2017
The current constitutional reform in Turkey puts a premium on democratic politics in the face of extra-political forces...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
As Washington seeks to leave a fragmented Syria and Iraq, Turkey, facing grave security threats emanating from that very...
Thursday, November 10, 2016
The domestic and international actors, in most cases, had opposite impacts on the events of July 15. While the domestic...
Friday, July 29, 2016
Great Britain’s decision to leave the EU is not only a turning point in Europe’s history but also a huge challenge for the...
Monday, July 11, 2016
Notwithstanding the significance of debates around the content and the wording of a constitution the question of who has...
Monday, March 7, 2016
ISIL is a modern phenomenon and it is in many ways not different from fascism or communism which for a great part defined...
Friday, February 26, 2016