• 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 ...

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

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

  Since the 1960s, Turkish policymakers have developed a distant attitude towards the Kurdish movement in Iraq and they have been concerned about the possibility of similar developments taking place in Turkey. However, in ...

• 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 ...

• Countering insurgency: Turkey's policy toward the PKK's transnational dynamics in Europe 

  Pusane, Özlem Kayhan; llgıt, Aslı (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-01-02)

  Insurgents often develop international connections and benefit from external assistance from a variety of sources. Support from diaspora communities has long been considered one of the critical external factors in the ...

• Religious solidarity, historical mission and moral superiority: construction of external and internal "others' in AKP's discourses on Syrian refugees in Turkey 

  Karakaya Polat, Rabia (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-10-20)

  Turkey hosts the world's largest community of displaced Syrians. According to UNHCR, there are more than 3 million registered Syrians in Turkey as of 2018. Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Turkey's ...

• The moderation of Turkey's Kurdish left: the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) 

  Celep, Ödül (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-10-20)

  Moderation theory, within the political party context, has often been applied to European Socialists and Christian Democrats, as well as Islamic revivalists in the Muslim world. This article applies moderation theory to ...

• Making Winners: Urban Transformation and Neoliberal Populism in Turkey 

  Demiralp Yılankaya, Seda (Middle East Institute, 2018-12-01)

  This study focuses on the distribution of the costs and benefits of Turkey's urban policy. Since 2002, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has embraced an ambitious form of capitalism that privatized the ...

• The state of property development in Turkey: facts and comparisons 

  Demiralp Yılankaya, Seda; Demiralp Cuda, Selva; Gümüş, İnci (Cambridge Univ Press, 2016-09-01)

  In this article, we investigate economic and political developments in Turkey's construction sector over the last decade and consider their implications. We find that during the first term of the government of the Justice ...

• Technology and politics: have the ICTs turned into a domain for civil-military relations in Turkey? 

  Karakaya Polat, Rabia (Routledge Journals, 2016)

  The implications of technology have been widely acknowledged in international relations. Studies ranging from the causes of war and military effectiveness to terrorism and nuclear proliferation have explored how technology ...

• Turkey’s struggle with the PKK and civilian control over the Turkish Armed Forces 

  Kayhan Pusane, Özlem (Routledge, 2016-05-03)

  Although most scholars of Turkey’s civil-military relations argue that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) insurgency has led to a decrease in civilian control over the Turkish military from the 1980s onwards, this has not ...

• New directions for women's political development in Turkey: Exploring the implications of the internet for Ka-der 

  Karakaya Polat, Rabia; Çağlı, Elif (IOS Press, 2014)

  Underrepresentation of women in Turkish politics is well documented. This is evident in the numbers of women in key decision-making positions, including the Parliament. The role of women's NGOs is significant in educating, ...

• Turkey's Military Victory over the PKK and Its Failure to End the PKK Insurgency 

  Pusane, Özlem Kayhan (Routledge journals, Taylor & Francis LTD., 2015-09-03)

  This article explores the major reasons why Turkey could not end the PKK insurgency despite its military defeat in the late 1990s. It argues that Turkish governments have failed to sufficiently address two key aspects of ...

• Consumer response to economic crisis and lessons for marketers: The Turkish experience 

  Kaytaz, Mehmet; Gül, Mısra Çaǧla (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2014-01)

  Private consumption is the largest component of gross domestic product (GDP). It has a substantial impact on the speed of recovery from an economic crisis. This paper aims to examine the behavior of consumers, firms, and ...

• Turkey's Kurdish Opening: Long Awaited Achievements and Failed Expectations 

  Pusane, Özlem Kayhan (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, 2014-01-02)

  Turkish state actors have used mainly military means to first suppress the Kurdish rebellions and then to end the PKK violence from 1984 onwards. However, after the AKP came to office in 2002, the government challenged the ...

• Citizenship in the age of the Internet: a comparative analysis of Britain and Turkey 

  Karakaya Polat, Rabia; Pratchett, Lawrence (Routledge Journals, 2014-01-02)

  The article links the literatures on citizenship studies and electronic democracy by analyzing the extent to which theories and practices of citizenship are being transformed in the age of the Internet. Distinguishing ...

• Turkey's Kurdish Question: Changing Domestics and Regional Dynamics through the Arab Spring 

  Kayhan Pusane, Özlem (Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2014-06-01)

  Since the 1980s, international developments have always influenced Turkey's Kurdish question in general and the country's struggle with the PKK in particular. Arab Spring, which started in Tunisia in 2010 and quickly spread ...

• The Political Causes of Party Closures in Turkey 

  Celep, Ödül (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2014-04)

  Political parties are the integral components of democratic systems. Without political parties, democratic systems cannot function. Yet, not all political parties embrace the existing 'rules of the game'. After the experience ...

• White Turks, Black Turks? Faultlines beyond Islamism versus secularism 

  Demiralp, Seda (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2012)

  According to popular views, contemporary Turkish politics is defined by the ideological conflict between Islamist and secularist parties. However, the focus on the Islamism versus secularism dichotomy, a common bias in the ...

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