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Turkey's Troubled Democracy: Bringing the Socioeconomic Factors Back in

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Tanel Demirel
Tanel Demirel*
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Hacettepe University
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The advent of democracy in Turkey has been far from tranquil. Since the transition to multiparty politics in 1946, democracy has been interrupted by three military interventions (in 1960, 1971, and 1980)- unless we count as the fourth intervention the more recent incident, euphemistically labeled “the 28 February Process,” in which the military played a crucial role in forcing the resignation of the governing coalition led by the Islamist-oriented Welfare Party (WP). Not only has Turkish democracy followed a cyclical pattern in which breakdowns and transitions succeeded each other, the degree or the quality of democracy that was in place never ceased to attract bitter criticism.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 24 , Spring 2001 , pp. 105 - 140
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