This paper aims to explain the key dynamics underlying the Justice and Development
Party's (AKP) recent authoritarian consolidation efforts in Turkey from a critical political …

Unpacking the core themes that are discussed in this collection, this article both offers a
research agenda to re-analyse Turkey's 'authoritarian turn'and mounts a methodological …

Referring to the linkages between neoliberal social policies and religious forms of
governmentality, this article analyses the Islamisation of Turkey under the rule of the AKP …

After decades of multiparty politics, Turkey is no longer a democracy. A theory-upending
case, the country has descended into a competitive authoritarian regime under the Justice …

Both “populism” and “populist” have long been considered ill-defined terms, and therefore
are regularly misapplied in both scholarly and popular discourses. 1 This definitional …

By the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, populists have taken charge in
Turkey, India and Israel, all previously heralded as exceptional democracies in difficult …

For decades after the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish state
promoted the idea of a desired citizen. The Kemalist state treated these citizens as superior …

Turkey was shown as a model country by Western capitals in the early 2000s because it
successfully embraced the neoliberal economic path and “moderate Islamist” values. In the …

In the last decade, discourse on sexuality has proliferated more than ever in the political
realm in Turkey. The discursive utilization of women's bodies and sexualities has appeared …

While state-society relations in Turkey have historically been topdown and coups dTétat
periodically interrupted democratic politics, the recent authoritarian turn under Erdoğan is …