Cemal Burak Tansel - openDemocracy

Reports of Turkey’s authoritarianism are not greatly exaggerated

If there is going to be a serious discussion about whether the AKP’s electoral supremacy has triggered authoritarian tendencies, the starting point has to be the recognition that such practices can co-exist with a representative, democratic system.

By Cemal Burak Tansel

/ 27 Mar 2014

Reports of Turkey’s authoritarianism are not greatly exaggerated

If there is going to be a serious discussion about whether the AKP’s electoral supremacy has triggered authoritarian tendencies, the starting point has to be the recognition that such practices can co-exist with a representative, democratic system.

By Cemal Burak Tansel

/ 27 Mar 2014

The Gezi Park occupation: confronting authoritarian neoliberalism

Gas, gas, gas, it is the only way they deal with problems that come under one heading.

By Cemal Burak Tansel

/ 2 Jun 2013