Political and Social Issues

Five years on from the Tunisian revolution, Tunisia stands as the sole success story of the Arab Spring. The country since then has managed to adopt a pluralist and democratic constitution, and held three free and fair elections. Accordingly, in the eyes of several observers, Tunisia is now in the process of consolida…

• ÖZLEM TÜR

En évitant de s'en tenir à des catégories assignatrices trop rigides, compte tenu de la fluidité et de la fragilité des statuts, l'article s'efforce de caractériser la fonction de la métropole d'Istanbul dans le système actuel des migrations, mobilités et circulations internationales. Plusieurs figures sont ainsi succ…

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This article aims at giving visibility to the social and political motivations behind the introduction of a new alphabet in 1928 Turkey, breaking loose from ideological or cultural explanations. More than a step in the process of 'modernization' or 'westernization', the authoritarian reformulation of the graphic norm…

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• EVRİM GÖRMÜŞ NAKAŞ

The debates on laïcité in France have been capped by a claim that French cultural imaginary laïcité has reasserted itself against the ‘new challenge of diversity’, this new challenge explicitly being contrasted to the old challenge of the Catholic Church. There have been plenty of references to the French Third Republ…

• MURAT AKAN

With its striking title, The Lure of Authoritarianism is a very timely edited volume that helps the readers to understand the state of authoritarian regimes in the Maghreb during the post-Arab Spri...

• MUHAMMET TAHİR KILAVUZ

What shapes political parties’ direction of change on the political spectrum? Under what conditions do Islamist movements moderate or shift towards a more radical stance? Drawing on the case of the Ennahda Party in Tunisia, I argue that transformation of the Islamist parties should be analysed on par with that of the…

• HASRET DİKİCİ BİLGİN

What shapes political parties’ direction of change on the political spectrum? Under what conditions do Islamist movements moderate or shift towards a more radical stance? Drawing on the case of the Ennahda Party in Tunisia, I argue that transformation of the Islamist parties should be analysed on par with that of the…

• HASRET DİKİCİ BİLGİN

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Despite being shaken by the Arab Spring, authoritarian structures still exist in the regions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Th is situation highlights the importance of studying the continuity of authoritarian structures more comprehensively. In addition to approaches that reduce authoritarianism to intra…

Fransiz yerel yonetim sistemi 1980’lerden itibaren uc doneme yayilan bir yerellesme sureci icinde bulunmaktadirlar. 1982’de cikarilan yerellesme yasalariyla idari aynilik ilkesi terk edilmis, bu tarihten gunumuze dek tamamlayici ya da yeniden duzenleyici pek cok yeni yasa cikarilmis ve yerellesmenin guclendirilmesi yo…