Routledge Focus on the Middle East
The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurds: Anatomy of a Failure
1st Edition
By Burak Özpek
June 30, 2020
In January 2013, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government initiated a peace process in order to settle the Kurdish question through peaceful means. However, this sanguine atmosphere gradually disappeared, before finally collapsing after the general elections of 7 June 2015. This book ...
Presidentialism in Turkey: Instability and Change
1st Edition
By Serap Gur
December 12, 2019
Parliamentarism has been a presiding characteristic of the Turkish political tradition since the 1876 Ottoman constitution. In 1923, with the founding of the Turkish Republic, modern parliamentarism was implemented in Turkey. Since that time, Turkish politics has been turbulent, with four military ...