• How to profile PYD/YPG as an actor in the Syrian civil war: Policy implications for the region and beyond 

  Pusane, Özlem Kayhan (Springer International Publishing, 2017-12-29)

  Since the armed confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, concepts such as “hybrid war,” “hybrid threat,” and “hybrid adversary” have been on the rise. These terms are part of an ongoing debate about the contemporary ...

• Can the Kurdish left contribute to Turkey’s democratization? 

  Celep, Ödül (SETA, 2014-03-01)

  The current peace process regarding Turkey’s Kurdish question could pave the way for the normalization of politics and democratization in Turkey if the existing opportunities are not missed. The major actors that represent ...

• Can money make us friends?: Islamist entrepreneurs and chances for democratization in the muslim world 

  Demiralp, Seda (2010-04-16)

  Islamist movements have grown persistently in the last few decades and became major actors in the politics of various Muslim nations, receiving attention in numerous popular studies. Many of those studies, however, focus ...

• Nationalism 

  Bıçakcı, Salih (SAGE Publications Inc., 2011-01-01)

  [No abstract available]

• Turkey's radical right and the Kurdish issue: The MHP's reaction to the "democratic opening" 

  Celep, Ödül (2010)

  Turkey's current government's 'democratic opening' project has led to a series of political discussions regarding the cause and resolve of the Kurdish issue. One major consequence of this debate has been the polarization ...

• How far away from politics of fear?: Turkey in the EU accession process 

  Polat, Rabia Karakaya (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2010)

  [No abstract available]

• The rising tide of conservatism in Turkey 

  Çarkoǧlu, Ali; Kalaycıoğlu, Ersin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009-01-01)

  This book analyzes the development and impact of conservatism on Turkish politics in the post-Cold War era. Exploring the impact of international system change on Turkey over the course of recent events, this book covers ...

• Citizenship and minorities: A historical overview of Turkey's Jewish minority 

  Toktaş, Şule (Blackwell Publishing, 2005-12)

  Citizenship in Turkey is one of the major instruments of nation-building. The legal framework that Turkish citizenship rests on is universal and equal. The non-Muslim minorities - the Armenians, the Greeks and the Jews - ...

• Polish-Russian relations: History, geography and geopolitics 

  Özbay, Fatih; Aras, Bülent (East European Quarterly, 2008-03)

  [No abstract available]

• The Davutoglu era in Turkish foreign policy 

  Aras, Bülent (2009)

  Ahmet Davutoglu was appointed Turkish foreign minister on May 1, 2009. Chief advisor to the Turkish prime minister since 2002, Davutoglu is known as the intellectual architect of Turkish foreign policy under the AK Party. ...

• A new way of conducting war: Cyberwar, is that real? 

  Mehmetcik, Hakan (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014-12-01)

  There are numerous discussions on both the reality and impact of cyberwar. Most of the critics are based on the Clausewitzian perspective of war in which its political nature must exist, an act of war has to be characteristically ...

• The conduct of citizenship in the case of Turkey's Jewish minority: legal status, identity, and civic virtue aspects 

  Toktaş, Şule (2006)

  Contemporary liberal democracies confront governance problems elicited by the discord between the principles of equality and difference, and between the concepts of majority and minority. Citizenship came to be recognized ...

• Güvenliğin Açmazları: Suriye ve Afganistan Deneyimlerinde Güvenlik-Demokrasi ve Güvenlik-İstikrar İkilemleri 

  Toktaş, Şule; Aras, Bülent (Tübitak, 2007)

  [No abstract available]

• Turkish Popular Presidential Elections: Deepening Legitimacy Issues and Looming Regime Change 

  Kalaycıoğlu, Ersin (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2015-04-03)

  This paper examines the politics of presidential elections in Turkey with particular reference to the 10 August 2014 presidential elections. It starts by scrutinising the change in the presidential election system from ...

• Political Islam in Tunisia: The History of Ennahda 

  Evirgen, Yusuf (Seta Foundation, 2019-01)

  Political Islam in Tunisia offers some helpful explanatory tools as appendixes, such as the al-Nahda Electoral Programme of 2011; the Statute of the al-Nahda Movement, July 2012; the Final Declaration of the Eight Congress ...

• Threads of Empire: Loyalty and Tsarist Authority in Bashkiria, 1552-1917 

  Üre, Pınar (Redaktsiya Zhurnala ab Imperio, 2017)

  [No abstract available]

• Türkiye’nin Kuzey Irak politikasında değişim: Turgut Özal ve Tayyip Erdoğan dönemleri karşılaştırmalı analizi 

  Kayhan Pusane, Özlem (Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2017)

  1960’lardan itibaren Türk politika yapıcıları Irak’taki Kürt hareketine karşı mesafeli bir tutum takınmış ve benzer olayların Türkiye’de de yaşanmasından kaygı duymuşlardır. Fakat, Türkiye, öncelikle 1990’ların başında, ...

• Erosion of Central Bank independence in Turkey 

  Demiralp Yılankaya, Seda; Demiralp Cuda, Selva (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019-01-01)

  This study provides empirical analysis to show increasing pressures over the Central Bank of Turkey (CBT) throughout the past decade where the CBT gives into such pressures, despite the Central Bank Law, which ensures tool ...

• Perspectives on Turkey’s 2017 Presidential Referendum 

  Celep, Ödül (Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, 2017-03)

  Until the 1980s, Turkey’s long-standing parliamentarism had precluded debates about presidentialism. In the following decade, the two right-wing presidents, Ozal and Demirel, briefly promoted presidentialism but failed to ...

• How can Akşener's Iyi Parti contribute to Turkey's Democracy? 

  Celep, Ödül (Turkish Policy Quarterly, 2018-12-01)

  Since the founding of Meral Aksener's Iyi Parti (Good Party) in October 2017, expectations for Turkey's newest political bloc have been mounting, particularly that it can reverse Turkey's march towards an empowered ...

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