.... First and foremost among such reforms is bring- ing the Turkish military under civilian control. For more than sixty years, Washington turned the other way each and every time the military decided to intervene in the political life of the country and excused its presumptive role as the “guarantor...

...Jonathan Clarke Ergun Özbudun: Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation . Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers,2000. 171 pages. ISBN 1-55587-735-4. $49.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Jonathan Clarke, a retired British diplomat...

...Dominique Maillard Dominique Maillard is vice dean in charge of international relations at the Université Paris-Est Créteil. Grigoriadis Ioannis N. : Trials of Europeanization: Turkish Political Culture and the European Union . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 . 424...

...Burak Erdenir This essay analyzes the change in value orientations of Turkish society in recent decades with reference to the Europeanization process the country has been going through, particularly that embodied in the European Union accession process. As the Europeanization of Turkish political...

...Yasin Aktay The “political” has been absent from Turkish foreign policy because the main difficulties facing the country were considered almost constitutive elements of Turkish national existence, so that they are kept incurable. This essay includes a brief history of the absence of the political...

...Michael B. Bishku Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Michael B. Bishku is associate professor of history at Augusta State University, Georgia. Turkish-Bulgarian Relations: From Conflict and Distrust to Cooperation over Minority Issues and International Politics...

... control in their discourses. Hakan Sahin is a lieutenant colonel in the Turkish Army. He teaches at the Turkish Army War College, Istanbul. Copyright 2016 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2016 military in Turkey political thought military intervention democratic control of military...

...Masaki Kakizaki Turkish politics experienced a major political realignment in 2002, when the Justice and Development Party came to power. This essay investigates the levels of trust in political institutions at this turning point of Turkish political life and by using the 2001 World Values Survey...

...Zafer Yilmaz The Gezi uprising can be considered a crucial turning in Turkish politics. As a response to countrywide democratic protests, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government revived the security state, escalated authoritarian tendencies, and started to organize a nationalist...

... the worldview of younger generations of Turkish citizens. Islamism Turkish politics nation building educational policy Justice and Development Party AKP © 2018 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2018 ...

...-Islamic Parties Sultan Tepe Since the early 1990s, major features of Turkish politics have been the vot- ers’ tendency to support parties that seem to be on the margin of politics, the unprecedented electoral victories of pro-Islamic parties, and an increas...

... Page 162 162 Mediterranean Quarterly: Fall 2000 and Turkish Cypriot communities date all the way back to 1571 and were only exacer- bated by the British presence. He gives most emphasis to political developments in the last half...

... politics and international conduct and compares these to Russia’s. Turkish and Russian leaders claim that their countries’ foreign policies are thoroughly pragmatic and animated by an objective understanding of real national interests. It could be argued, however, that even without evoking a fully...

... and Turkish peoples—his first was The Mediterranean Feud, published in 1983. It covered a wide range of problems, including issues involv- ing the Aegean Sea as well as Cyprus. To support his gloomy thesis, Borowiec begins his new work with a succinct political...

...Ahmet T. Kuru Why did Turkish policies toward Syria and Egypt in 2011–15 largely fail? At the individual level, the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan was plagued by populism in the sense that he uses foreign policy issues for the sake of domestic party politics without pursuing long-term...

... the role of the military in Turkish politics. The victory of the “yes” vote was hailed as signaling popular readiness to continue Turkey’s ongoing modernization and reform in line with accession to the European Union.1 Given that the opposition — the secular establishment led by the military...

...’ ruminations on politics, economy, and society. In a chapter on the fiction of Turkish author Ahmet Midhat Efendi (1844 – 1912), A. Holly Shissler shows how the writer’s work focuses on morality in the home in order to promote ideas of proper economic behavior and productivity. In his novel Henuz 17...

...’ ruminations on politics, economy, and society. In a chapter on the fiction of Turkish author Ahmet Midhat Efendi (1844 – 1912), A. Holly Shissler shows how the writer’s work focuses on morality in the home in order to promote ideas of proper economic behavior and productivity. In his novel Henuz 17...

... that another national election would strengthen its hold on Turkish political life. Against most predictions and amid violence against Turkey’s Kurdish 4  Mediterranean Quarterly: March 2016 minority, the bet by the AKP paid off as the party restored its absolute major- ity. Against this backdrop...

...- ence (OIC).2 Such statements from Turkish leaders clearly signaled that an improvement in democracy, economy, and human rights in the Middle East would be perceived by the Turkish political leadership as closely related to improvements in the regional security situation. The AKP government agreed...