Articles by Cihan Tugal

• Democratic Janissaries?
  • Cihan Tugal

  in NLR 76, July-August 2012, pp. 5-24
  Subjects: Arab World , Turkey
  

  Turkey has been hailed in the West as a democratic model for the Islamic world. Cihan Tuğal takes a cool look at the Erdoğan government’s domestic and foreign-policy record, from ‘zero problems’ diplomacy to the blockade of Libya and dirty war on Damascus, airstrikes on Turkish Kurds and silence on Bahrain.

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  Also available in Spanish and Swedish
• The Greening of Istanbul
  • Cihan Tugal

  in NLR 51, May-June 2008, pp. 64-80
  Subjects: Turkey , Cities
  

  Its population swollen by six million new arrivals in thirty years, Istanbul has sprawled outwards from the Bosphorus with dramatic speed. Cihan Tugal analyses the contradictions of an urban Islamism, wedded both to vote-winning populism and to financial markets.

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• Nato's Islamists
  • Cihan Tugal

  in NLR 44, March-April 2007, pp. 5-34
  Subjects: Nationalism , Religion , Turkey
  

  Analysing the current hegemony of Erdoğan’s AKP in Turkey, Cihan Tuğal argues that the party has been the agent of a classic passive revolution, effectively shoring up the Kemalist state. Paradoxes of ‘Americanization with Muslim characteristics’, against the backdrop of Western military intervention in the Middle East.

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  Also available in Spanish and Turkish