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During its first two terms (2002-2012), AK Party adopted a range of constitutional democratization reforms connected with the EU accession process covering issues such as: freedom of thought, faith, expression and assembly, ...

On 15 July 2016, Turkey experienced a milestone in its political history. An entity, judicially and officially recognized as the Gulenist Terror Organization (FETO), operating through a group of its disciples nested in the ...

Drawing on world culture and local culture explanations of educational change, this article aims to understand the dynamics of educational reform in Turkey in 1997 that expanded compulsory primary education from five to ...

The British, American and French revolutions are called as classical revolutions. They carry three main components of revolutions: a period of time in which political changes occur expeditiously; an intensive competition ...

Drawing on the literature on minorities’ and ethnic groups’ perceptions of the police, this article investigates the differences between Kurds and Turks in terms of their perceptions of the police in Turkey. We conducted ...

This article analyzes Turkey’s official energy strategy to indicate how it responds to actual challenges by striking a compromise between market characteristics, and geopolitics and foreign policy. It points to Turkey’s ...

This comparative analysis considers the Turkish-Greek rapprochement and the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement processes with a three-dimensional approach. Although the deep-rooted conflicts between neither Greece and Turkey ...

This article analyzes the evolution of Iran’s energy agenda with a particular focus on oil, nuclear and natural gas. It aims to indicate whether Iran’s energy policy, which relies on oil revenues and prioritizes nuclear ...

As the field of activity becomes narrower in local governments, it is easier and less costly to reflect the preferences of people. Since the distance between society and administration is closer, the local government formed ...