Turkey's New State in the Making
Transformations in Legality, Economy and Coercion
- 320 pages
- English
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Turkey's New State in the Making
Transformations in Legality, Economy and Coercion
About This Book
Since the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP's temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights, and the one-man-rule of President Erdogan have become the identifying characteristics of Turkish politics. The failed coup attempt on 15th July 2016 further impaired the situation as the government declared emergency rule at the end of which a political regime defined as the "Presidential Government System" was established in July 2018. Turkey's New State in the Making examines the historical specificities of the ongoing AKP-led radical state transformation in Turkey within a global, legal, financial, ideological, and coercive neoliberal context. Arguing that rather than being an exception, the new Turkish state has the potential to be a model for political transformations elsewhere, problematizing how specific policies the AKP adapted to refract social dispositions have been radically redefining the republican, democratic and secular features of the modern Turkish state.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements and beyond
- Introduction: Putting the AKP-led state transformation in its neoliberal historical context
- Appendix: The course of events in the 2010s in Turkey
- PART I: GLOBAL POLITICAL CONTEXT OF STATE TRANSFORMATION
- PART II: POLITICS OF ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
- PART III: POLITICS OF DOMINATION
- PART IV: POLITICS OF COERCION
- Index