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Erdoğan’s Cesspit
in NLR 107, September-October 2017, pp. 5-8
Subjects: Turkey,
As the AKP’s crackdown on political dissent continues and Erdoğan’s autocratic ambitions become ever more apparent, his Western apologists lament the fall from grace of a man—moderate and liberal-minded—who never existed.
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Turkey’s New Left
in NLR 107, September-October 2017, pp. 9-30
Subjects: Turkey,
Can the Peoples’ Democratic Party, the most successful left-wing force in Turkey’s history, avoid the fate of its vanquished predecessors? Cengiz Gunes describes the party’s trajectory, its roots in Turkish socialism and the Kurdish national movement, and the distinctive political appeal with which it has sought to overcome the tensions between them.
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Making and Unmaking of the Greater Middle East
in NLR 101, September-October 2016, pp. 5-34
Subjects: Arab World, Iran, Turkey
What longer-run dynamics underlie present realities in the Middle East? Kevan Harris traces changing state formations and social compacts, from decaying Ottoman and Safavid empires, through colonization and postwar corporatism to infitah, authoritarian retrenchment and military intervention.
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Good Enough for the Middle East?
in NLR 99, May-June 2016, pp. 139-148
Subjects: Arab World, Turkey
Ece Temelkuran on Cihan Tuğal, The Fall of the Turkish Model. Unsparing dissection of AKP-Erdoğan rule.
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Class and Politics in Turkey’s Gezi Protests
in NLR 89, September-October 2014, pp. 103-123
Subjects: Turkey, Movements
What social forces have been mobilized in the mass protests of recent years? Following Göran Therborn and André Singer’s contributions in NLR 85, Erdem Yörük and Murat Yüksel examine the class backgrounds and political ideologies of the Gezi Park protesters, finding that manual workers outnumbered ‘new middle classes’.
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Democratic Janissaries?
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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The Greening of Istanbul
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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Flag and Headscarf
in NLR 51, May-June 2008, pp. 81-86
Subjects: Nationalism, Religion, Turkey
An iconoclastic journalist looks at the thinning substance behind the AKP’s façade of ‘democratization’, and demagogic responses from Turkey’s secular establishment and army.
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Nato’s Islamists
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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The Turkish Bell Jar
in NLR 28, July-August 2004, pp. 65-84
Subjects: Turkey,
Against a background of high unemployment and fragile economic recovery, the neo-Islamist AKP is submitting its supporters among the urban poor to the programmes of the IMF, Pentagon and Kemalist elite. Internal pressures on NATO’s Middle East bridgehead and EU candidate member.
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