Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict and Retreat From Democracy
The link between conflict and democracy in Turkey casts doubt on the assumption of a natural relationship between conflict resolution and democratic improvements.
E. Fuat Keyman is the director of the Istanbul Policy Center and a professor of international relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University.
The link between conflict and democracy in Turkey casts doubt on the assumption of a natural relationship between conflict resolution and democratic improvements.
Ankara’s attempts to make democracy promotion a focus of its foreign policy have had only limited success, in part because Turkey is losing credibility as a democratic model.