Crystallizing Fault-lines: Turkey’s Democratic Durability at Risk

Ozan Serdaroglu

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: In the aftermath of the anti-governmental Gezi demonstrations of May-June and the conclusion of the Ergenekon trial earlier this month, clear fault-lines are crystallizing in the Turkish political landscape, with parties reinforcing the divide by shoring up their respective core support bases. This trend brings with it the attendant danger of a more polarized Turkey and ushering in an ineffective political system where political elites are unable to build consensus among diverging social demands. Considering the possible negative impacts of this situation on Turkey’s democratic durability, the EU would do well to recognize the new political reality emerging in Turkey by further engaging with the country, not turning away from it. [ISDP Policy Brief No. 129].

Keywords: Turkey; Democratic Durability; anti-governmental; Gezi demonstrations; Turkish politics; Exclusionary Politics; Peace and Democracy Party; secular community; legislative; elections; nationalist and pro-military; political force (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09
Note: Institutional Papers
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownl ... &AId=5477&fref=repec

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:5477

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Padma Prakash ().