Authoritarian Politics in Turkey

Bahar Baser is a research fellow at the Centre for Peace, Trust and Social Relations at Coventry University and a visiting research fellow at the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA) at Stellenbosch University, funded by the National Research Foundation. She completed her PhD in social and political sciences at the European University Institute in Florence. Baser is the author of Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts (2015) and co-editor of Migration from Turkey to Sweden (forthcoming 2017). She has various publications in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Terrorism and Political Violence, Ethnopolitics and the International Journal of Kurdish Studies. Ahmet Erdi Ozturk is a research assistant in the Faculty of Law, Social Science and History at the University of Strasbourg, where he has also been based for his doctoral research. He has held a research fellowship at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz. He gained an MA from the Political Science Department, Hacettepe University and an MRes from the Political Science Department, Barcelona Autonoma University. Ozturk has recently published in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (2016) the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (2016) as well in academic and online journals, books and newspapers, including Birgun, The Conversation, Hurriyet Daily News, Open Democracy, T24 and Diken. He is the Turkey correspondent for EUREL (Sociological and Legal Data on Religions in Europe) and has been a regular guest on television programs such as France 24 to discuss Turkish politics.

• Turkey in the Twenty-First Century: Bourgeois Revolution, Winners, and LosersHakan YilmazIn Lieu of an Introduction: Is it Curtains for Turkish Democracy?Bahar Baser and Ahmet Erdi Öztürk2.How Did We Get Here? Turkey’s Slow Shift to AuthoritarianismOnur Bakiner3.Electoral Integrity in Turkey: From Tutelary Democracy to Competitive AuthoritarianismKarabekir Akkoyunlu4.Elections and Public Finance in Turkey: Public Spending as a Taciturn Election Campaign?Taptuk Emre Erkoç and Abdulkadir Civan5.Foreign Policy as a Legitimation Strategy for AKP’s Hegemonic Project of “New Turkey”Bezen Balamir Coskun, Salih Dogan and Mustafa Demir6.Power and Islam in Turkey: The relationship between the AKP and Sunni Islamic groups, 2002–2016Emrah Çelik7.Turks as a minority: Effects of minority situation in electoral behaviourSamim Akgönül8.Recasting the Parameters of Freedom of Religion in Turkey: Non-Muslims and the AKPAnna Maria Beylunioglu9.Kurds and Elections Under the AK Party’s Rule: Changing Internal and External Borders of the Kurdish Political RegionCuma Çiçek10.Vanguards of violation: freedom of assembly and notes on the Turkish political regimeK?vanç Atak11.Freedom of Information in Turkey: Death of the Free Press and the Case of Academics for PeaceEfe Kerem Sözeri12.Digital cultural capital as a counter-hegemonic tool in TurkeyDa?han Irak13.Epilogue: The Desire is There??tar Gözayd?n