The year 2015 is announced as “Soil Year” by the United Nations. The previous year’s theme was “Family Farming Year”. … More
Month: May 2015
Experimenting “Bottom-up Europeanization”: EU’s support to civil society development in Enlargement countries
The democratic deficit and inefficiency of public policy making are common issues in the global level, which has been widely … More
Towards the limits of dominant-party period? Notes and hopes for the June 2015 elections
Kıvanç ATAK European University Institute, Florence Is Turkey coming to an end of its dominant-party period? It is not … More
Elect or Erect: 2015 Elections in Turkey
It is hard to state that majority of the Turkish citizens are equally interested in upcoming elections. AKP voters are … More
A new “foreigner” imagery in the Turkish financial markets?
The recent years of the AKP rule have been marked by the increasingly polarizing voice of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the … More
Reading Manifestos: European Union in Turkey’s June 2015 Elections
As the June 2015 general elections approach all major political parties in Turkey published their election manifestos, which are considered … More