Unstable stability: Turkish politics at the crossroads?

Basit Öğe Kaydı
dc.contributor.authorTuran, Ilter
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:47:31Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:47:31Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe Justice and Development Party has been in power in Turkey since 2002 after a sweeping victory. The party has since implemented a successful economic stabilization programme and led the country into membership negotiations with the European Union. The educated modern-urban segments of the population, however, continue to harbour suspicion that the government party has a secret agenda of turning Turkey into an Islamic state. Although the evidence for such a fear is not fully convincing, it can be understood within the broader framework of Turkish modernization which was carried out by a highly centralized state in the cultural-educational domain in an uncompromising fashion, generating a social bifurcation between the moderns and the traditionalists. After the transition to competitive politics, elected politicians worked to curb the power of the state elites that have been the exponents of modernization policies. Supported also by economic development that has expanded society's power against the state, the political elites have worked to expand their scope for decision-making. Such redistribution of power in society has been problematical and has twice resulted in military interventions. The shift in the balance of power in favour of the political (elected) elite is nearing completion. The struggle is currently centered on the election of a new president by the parliament in May 2007 because historically the presidency has been seen as a position that counterbalances the preferences of the political elite by those of the state elite. Although likely to cause perturbations, the president will be elected by the Justice and Development Party. Consolidation of Turkey's democracy is continuing.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1468-2346.2007.00621.x
dc.identifier.endpage+en_US
dc.identifier.issn0020-5850
dc.identifier.issn1468-2346
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage319en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2007.00621.x
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7833
dc.identifier.volume83en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000244982100007en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford Univ Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Affairsen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.titleUnstable stability: Turkish politics at the crossroads?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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