Katerina Dalacoura and Hakan Seckinelgin (eds.)
Collected Papers | Volume 4 | December 2015
The LSE Middle East Centre and the Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies organised a panel discussion and a workshop on the state of democracy in Turkey on 19–20 March 2015. The panel addressed the questions of women, popular attitudes towards democracy and state–civil society relations. The workshop focused on state institutions and the rule of law (the constitution; the judiciary, the legislature and the separation of powers; security sector reform); civil society and political culture (the political opposition; minority issues; LGBT rights and gender); and the question of democracy in the context of foreign relations (the influence of international norms and institutions on legal reform, the impact of the EU accession process and the question of the Middle East). A selection of the papers presented at the panel and workshop is published here, under the auspices of the Middle East Centre.
Papers
The Gender Wars in Turkey: A Litmus Test of Democracy?
Deniz Kandiyoti
The Trajectory of Legal Reform for Advancing Human Rights in Turkey and the Role of Civil Society
Emma Sinclair-Webb
Backsliding into Authoritarianism in Turkey: The European Union Accession Process and the Limits of Political Conditionality
Meltem Müftüler-Baç
Security Sector Reform in Turkey: The Military, Intelligence and Police during the AKP Era
Yaprak Gürsoy