Following Ekrem Imamoglu’s victory in the rerun of Istanbul’s mayoral election last week, serious questions remain about the future of Turkish democracy. Continue Reading
The author explores to what extent the spread of right-wing populism in the West may influence the nature of civil-military relations across the world. Continue Reading
Analysts perceive political texts as an important and valuable source of data that can be used to capture the author’s ideology. From a political science perspective, the ability to capture the ideology of political elites and citizens using a common platform like Twitter greatly helps in answering a very important question: Which political party represents its voters the most? Continue Reading
In the June 2015 parliamentary elections, Turkey’s AKP (Justice and Development Party) lost its majority status, a first for the party since it entered the electoral arena in 2002. After an initial, failed attempt at forming a coalition government, new… Continue Reading