Turkey's New State in the Making (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Since the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKPs temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights, and the one-man-rule of President Erdogan have become the identifying characteristics of Turkish politics. The failed coup attempt on 15th July 2016 further impaired the situation as the government declared emergency rule at the end of which a political regime defined as the Presidential Government System was established in July 2018.Turkeys New State in the Making examines the historical specificities of the ongoing AKP-led radical state transformation in Turkey within a global, legal, financial, ideological, and coercive neoliberal context. Arguing that rather than being an exception, the new Turkish state has the potential to be a model for political transformations elsewhere, problematizing how specific policies the AKP adapted to refract social dispositions have been radically redefining the republican, democratic and secular features of the modern Turkish state. This work problematizes the AKP-led radical re-makingof the Turkish state by taking into consideration the constitutive role of crisis-riddenglobal neoliberal transformations on the domestic social and economic dynamics and processes. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…