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ID080948
Title ProperTurkey
Other Title Informationthe year of living dangerously
LanguageENG
AuthorOzel, Soli
Publication2008.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Turkish democracy passed its "maturity" test in 2007. The massive shift of power from the Kemalist establishment to the rising, mostly provincial elites and their allies culminated in the landslide victory of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the summer, which increased and consolidated its electorate after its first electoral victory in 2002. One of the main fault lines of the Turkish social and political order, secularism, took centre stage in the military's interference in the presidential election debacle, the ensuing massive demonstrations and the parliamentary and presidential elections that followed. At the same time, xenophobic nationalism, the dark side of democracy, raised its ugly head, fed further by the exacerbation of PKK violence. With the AKP's monopolisation of power, Turkey's politics are in uncharted waters and many of the givens of the republican era are being questioned. Unable to cope with the profound economic and social transformations and changing composition of the population due to massive migration, the old political structures are crumbling, yet the new political leadership, so adept at municipal government and so pragmatic in its approach to problem solving, has yet to offer the country a comprehensive vision of its politics.
`In' analytical NoteInternational Spectator Vol. 43, No.1; Mar 2008: p5-13
Journal SourceInternational Spectator Vol. 43, No.1; Mar 2008: p5-13
Key WordsTurkey ;  Democracy