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Praetorian army in action: a critical assessment of civil–military relations in Turkey
In: Armed forces & society, Volume 47, Issue 1, p. 201-222
ISSN: 1556-0848
With four successful and three failed coups in less than 60 years, the Turkish military is one of the most interventionist armed forces in the global south. Despite this record, few scholars have analyzed systematically how the military's political role changed over time. To address this gap, this article examines the evolution of civil–military relations (CMR) in Turkey throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Based on a historical analysis, this article offers a revisionist account for the extant Turkish scholarship and also contributes to the broader literature on CMR. It argues that the military's guardian status was not clearly defined and that the officer corps differed strongly on major political issues throughout the Cold War. This article also demonstrates that the officer corps was divided into opposite ideological factions and political agendas and enjoyed varying levels of political influence due to frequent purges and conjectural changes.
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Praetorian Army in Action: A Critical Assessment of Civil–Military Relations in Turkey
In: Armed forces & society, Volume 47, Issue 1, p. 201-222
ISSN: 1556-0848
With four successful and three failed coups in less than 60 years, the Turkish military is one of the most interventionist armed forces in the global south. Despite this record, few scholars have analyzed systematically how the military's political role changed over time. To address this gap, this article examines the evolution of civil–military relations (CMR) in Turkey throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Based on a historical analysis, this article offers a revisionist account for the extant Turkish scholarship and also contributes to the broader literature on CMR. It argues that the military's guardian status was not clearly defined and that the officer corps differed strongly on major political issues throughout the Cold War. This article also demonstrates that the officer corps was divided into opposite ideological factions and political agendas and enjoyed varying levels of political influence due to frequent purges and conjectural changes.
Ergun Özbudun, Party Politics and Social Cleavages in Turkey (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2013). Pp. 155. $49.95 cloth
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Volume 47, Issue 1, p. 207-210
ISSN: 1471-6380
Turkey - The Portrayal of the Ukraine Crisis in the Turkish Media
The situation in Ukraine is the subject of an intense discussion in the public sphere and the media across Europe. But what do we know about how our neighbouring countries are reflecting on the crisis, its historical background and its meaning for the relationship between our countries, Ukraine, Russia and the European Union? During 2014 and 2015 the Cultures of History Forum asked historians and sociologists from more than 15 European countries, the US, Israel and Turkey to reflect on the media coverage and public debates regarding the Ukrainian crisis in their countries. This article focuses on Turkey.
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Eleştirel güvenlik ve Türkiye: uluslararası ilişkilerde alternatif yaklaşım
In: İletişim yayınları 3214
In: Araştırma - inceleme dizisi 536
How Erdoğan's populism won again
In: Journal of democracy, Volume 34, Issue 3, p. 21-32
ISSN: 1086-3214
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Popülizm ve Dış Yardım Arasındaki Stratejik Bağ
In: Alternatif politika: Alternative politics, Volume 13, Issue 3, p. 556-592
ISSN: 1309-0593
The far right, labor unions, and the working class in Turkey since the 1960s
In: The Middle East journal, Volume 75, Issue 4, p. 511-531
ISSN: 1940-3461
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Why did Turkish democracy collapse?: A political economy account of AKP's authoritarianism
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Volume 27, Issue 6, p. 1075-1091
ISSN: 1460-3683
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Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political economy account of AKP's authoritarianism
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Volume 27, Issue 6, p. 1075-1091
ISSN: 1460-3683
After decades of multiparty politics, Turkey is no longer a democracy. A theory-upending case, the country has descended into a competitive authoritarian regime under the Justice and Development Party ( Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi—AKP), despite rising income and education levels and strong links with the West. What accounts for democratic breakdown in such an unlikely case? Instead of ideological and institutional factors, we offer a political economy account. We contend that the coalitional ties that the AKP forged with businesses and the urban poor through the distribution of public resources has altered the cost of toleration for the party leadership and their dependent clients, while reducing the cost of suppression for incumbents. This new political calculus led to increasing authoritarianism of the AKP government through securitization of dissent, mounting repression, and systematic violation of civil liberties.
Killing Competitive Authoritarianism Softly: The 2019 Local Elections in Turkey
In: South European society & politics, Volume 24, Issue 3, p. 317-342
ISSN: 1743-9612
The perils of "Turkish Presidentialism"
In: Review of Middle East studies, Volume 52, Issue 1, p. 43-53
ISSN: 2329-3225
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A Small Yes for Presidentialism: The Turkish Constitutional Referendum of April 2017
In: South European society & politics, Volume 22, Issue 3, p. 303-326
ISSN: 1743-9612
Turkey: how the coup failed
In: Journal of democracy, Volume 28, Issue 1, p. 59-73
ISSN: 1045-5736
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