May 2014
International scrutiny of Turkey’s government on issues such as human rights, personal freedoms and liberties and rule of law has a long history. Amnesty International documented applications of torture to political detainees associated with the coup d’état as early as 1971. In the following decades, Europe started to play an important part in the...
October 2012
Being the center of business and cultural arena of Turkey, Istanbul will "host" a political fight over the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
July 2012
The EU accession process called for reforms permitting local authorities to conduct certain international relations, but the Government, so far, seems to have failed in implementing the reforms.
May 2012
The lack of a central welfare strategy in Turkey has turned social support into a public relations tool for AKP through municipal activities.