Cihan Tuğal on the fall of the ‘Turkish model’

April 16, 2016

Cihan Tuğal, a sociologist at UC Berkeley, chats about “The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism” (Verso), charting how Turkey went from a model “Muslim democracy” for the Middle East to an increasingly authoritarian state.

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Posted by William Armstrong
Filed in AKP, Arab Spring, Interviews, Podcast, Politics, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Religion, Secularism, Turkey, Turkish model, Turkish politics, Uncategorized
Tags: Cihan Tugal, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey, Turkey Book Talk, Turkish model, Turkish politics

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