Why Turkey is Authoritarian

‘Wrests us out of the stale narratives of Islam vs. secularism, offering a new way of understanding one of the most important questions in Turkey today: why despite so much democratic promise, its fundamental political structure returns to authoritarianism again and again’ – Suzy Hansen, author of Notes on a Foreign Country (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)‘Informative and authoritative Karaveli’s analysis of Turkish politics should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand Turkey’s relentless retreat from democracy’ – Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History, The University of Michigan, and author of ‘They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else’: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton, 2015)

Halil Karaveli is a Senior Fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center, a US-Swedish think tank, and the editor of the Turkey Analyst. His articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs and the National Interest. He is the author of Why Turkey is Authoritarian (Pluto, 2018).