The Malaise of Turkish democracy

Middle East Report

Volumn , Issue 209, 1998, Pages 32-35

  Aydintaşbaş, Asli ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTION; ISLAMISM; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

TURKEY;

EID: 0032431775     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3012733     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Metin Heper, "Islam and Democracy in Turkey: Towards a Reconciliation?" Middle East Journal 51/1 (Winter 1997), p. 44.
2. In his June 21, 1996, column of the mainstream daily Hurriyet, Editor in Chief Ertugrul Özkök called the coalition pact an "indecent proposal" since it was built on the premise that Erbakan would get the first turn in Prime Ministership in exchange for not supporting corruption charges against Çiller in the parliament.
3. For a leftist analysis of the decade-long parliamentary crisis in Turkey, see Ertugrul Kürkçü's "The Crisis of the Turkish State," Middle East Report 199 (April-June 1990).
4. For an account of the dual nature of Welfare's public speech, see Sami Zubaida's "Turkish Islam and National Identity," Middle East Report 199 (April-June 1996), pp. 10-15.
5. For a thorough account of the intra-party conflicts and Welfare's growth in the 1990s, see journalists Rusen Cakir's Ayet ve Slogan (Istanbul: Milliyet, 1992) and Ne Seriat Ne Demokrasi (Istanbul: Metis, 1994).
6. For a thorough account of the intra-party conflicts and Welfare's growth in the 1990s, see journalists Rusen Cakir's Ayet ve Slogan (Istanbul: Milliyet, 1992) and Ne Seriat Ne Demokrasi (Istanbul: Metis, 1994).
7. See Yeni Yüzyil, February 28, 1997, for an account of Gül's meeting with representatives from AIPAC, JINSA, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee.
8. From Netanyahu's first interview with Milliyet.
9. Erbakan once again offended Turkish secularists prior to the Congress by saying that "if alive, Ataturk would also be a Welfare member."
10. Polls conducted by Verso Polling agency in Ankara appeared in several Turkish papers in August 1998.
11. The source desires anonymity.
12. This is especially so in predominantly Kurdish southeastern Turkey. When the proKurdish HADEP failed to obtain parliamentary representation because it did not meet the ten percent national threshold, its votes (translating to 22 seats in a parliament of 550) were automatically transferred to the next largest party in the region.