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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Conspiracy theories have historically thrived in Turkey, but in recent years the AKP government have escalated their use and redirected their targets. Now, based on a foundation of imagined ‘hereditary victimhood’ that sees critique of the AKP elite as a Western conspiracy to destroy Islam, these conspiracies are driving an increasingly-polarising ...
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Conspiracy theories have historically thrived in Turkey, but in recent years the AKP government have escalated their use and redirected their targets. Now, based on a foundation of imagined ‘hereditary victimhood’ that sees critique of the AKP elite as a Western conspiracy to destroy Islam, these conspiracies are driving an increasingly-polarising ...
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The Justice and Development Party (AKP)
2018By actively supporting Turkey’s EU membership process, the AKP had placed itself in the democratization wagon and had thereby gained the sympathies of the US and European capitals. This was the most secure way to counterbalance the military, which carried out a “postmodern coup” in February 1997.
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Reactive and Aggressive Years of the Akp
2021This chapter aims to read the AKP period of Turkey in light of a combination of domestic and foreign policies, with religion at the forefront. In these two chapters, the concept of ‘state of exception’ is employed to understand the authoritarian ethno-nationalist Sunnification of Turkey under AKP rule.
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AKP’s Instrumentalisation of Conspiracy Theories
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015The instrumentalization of conspiracy theories by politicians for their political interests has never been something new in Turkish history, the opposite way around political leaders get used to convince people in existence of internal and external enemies while people get used to believe in the constructed by government conspiracy theories.
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The AKP and the Kurdish News Media
2020This chapter will examine how the dire state of news media freedom in contemporary Turkey intersects with the Kurdish issue. It starts with the initial optimism of AKP’s relationship with the Kurds, which was hailed as a new beginning based on religious kindred and a mutual distrust of the Kemalist establishment.
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Situating Change Under the AKP
2017How should we understand the post-2002 period of Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) rule? How should we assess and situate change and transformation alongside continuity? With respect to these questions, there have been two main interpretations. First, the dominant paradigm has principally been premised on transition theory,
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The AKP and the Gülenist News Media
2020The Kemalists and the Kurds have been the established political opposition for the AKP in Turkey and were dealt with as an obstacle to the consolidation of the party’s ability to implement an Islamist agenda. The journalism associated with both transitioned from being a secondary target to a primary target—as the authoritarianism of the AKP increased ...
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AKP’s Radicalization and Diyanet in the AKP Era
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AKP’s neoliberal populism and contradictions of new social policies in Turkey
Contemporary Politics, 2020Yonca Özdemir
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