Elections are not free or fair, but they matter greatly because this is how Erdoğan comes to power and stays in power and in this case he was almost about to lose that power.
Sebnem Gumuscu
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Berk Esen is an assistant professor of political science at Sabancı University. Sebnem Gumuscu is an associate professor of political science at Middlebury College. Their recent paper in the Journal of Democracy is “How Erdoğan’s Populism Won Again.”
Key Highlights
- Introduction - 0:33
- Democracy in Turkey - 3:30
- The Opposition - 21:36
- The AKP - 27:40
- Is Democracy Lost? - 41:01
Key Links
"How Erdoğan’s Populism Won Again" in Journal of Democracy by Berk Esen and Sebnem Gumuscu
Democratic Erosion: A Research, Teaching, & Policy Collaboration
Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia by Sebnem Gumuscu
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