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- ISBN 9781786998705
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 148 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP’s temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights, and the one-man-rule of President Erdogan have become the identifying characteristics of Turkish politics. The failed coup attempt on 15th July 2016 further impaired the situation as the government declared emergency rule at the end of which a political regime defined as the “Presidential Government System” was established in July 2018.
Turkey’s New State in the Making examines the historical specificities of the ongoing AKP-led radical state transformation in Turkey within a global, legal, financial, ideological, and coercive neoliberal context. Arguing that rather than being an exception, the new Turkish state has the potential to be a model for political transformations elsewhere, problematizing how specific policies the AKP adapted to refract social dispositions have been radically redefining the republican, democratic and secular features of the modern Turkish state.
Pinar Bedirhanoglu is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Politics at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Caglar Dolek received his Ph.D. degree in Sociology with a Collaborative Specialization in Political Economy from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 2019.
Funda Hülagü works as a research associate at the Department of Political Science, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany.
Özlem Kaygusuz is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Ankara University in Ankara, Turkey.
