Polarization is instrumental in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party’s emergence and continuance as dominant political forces in Turkey and it is hurting the country’s …
Ambivalence and Irony: ATATURKISM AND ISLAMISM IN TURKEY by Jerry Buenavista @ University of the Philippines-Diliman
From the ashes of the two great world empires - the Byzantine and the Ottoman - gave birth to a modern state of Turkey. It became a republic in 1923 with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as the founder and first …
DEATH OF PHILIPPINE DEMOCRACY AT THE GRASSROOTS by Jerry Buenavista @ University of the Philippines, Diliman
How can democracy be felt on a national scale when at the very grassroots, democracy is eroding or worst it is dead? The barangay (Filipino word for village) is the smallest political unit in the …