Halil Karaveli on ‘why Turkey is authoritarian’

August 21, 2018

Turkey Book Talk episode #71 – Halil Karaveli, Senior Fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, on his stimulating new book “Why Turkey is Authoritarian: From Atatürk to Erdoğan” (Pluto Press).

Against popular ideas that the division between secularism and Islam is the fundamental driver of Turkey’s modern history, Karaveli takes an uncompromisingly class-based perspective. He argues that the urge to protect dominant bourgeois class interests lies behind authoritarianism in its civilian and military guises.

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Read Halil’s most recent article at CACI’s Turkey Analyst: ‘Can Turkey Change?’

Why Turkey is Authoritarina

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Posted by William Armstrong
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One Response to “Halil Karaveli on ‘why Turkey is authoritarian’”

Bilge Yesil Says:

August 21, 2018 at 2:13 am
Ohhh this looks interesting! Eline saglik. Bilge

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