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Recep Erdogan has just won his third consecutive term as Turkey's president, so what does this mean for Turkey's democracy? What was once a thriving example of a steady democracy to its neighboring …
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Recently, the rise of democratic regimes that began after the 1970s or the Third Wave of Democratization has stopped. This wave was then replaced by a rise in autocratic regimes throughout the World. …
Turkey was once the beacon of democratic liberalism in the East, outside of the Western powers. However, under its current leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party, Justice and Development …
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In April 2021, President Biden became the first U.S. President to refer to the systematic killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as a genocide, after years of Armenian Americans, …
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For years, Turkey was hailed as being an exemplary case of a rare, developing, and withstanding secular democracy in a Muslim-majority society. However, under the rule of President Recep Tayyip …
Throughout recent years, Turkey has shown many characteristics of democratic backsliding under the leadership of President Erdogan and his party, the Justice and Development Party. One of the key …
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Aspiring autocrats face a variety of obstacles. Domestically, institutional resistance, robust democratic culture, and the sort of political difficulties that affect all politicians can slow, or even …
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On 20 November 2021, the President of the Republic of Serbia, Alexander Vucic, gave an interview in Belgrade, where he discussed the most important issues affecting his country today. Asked how he …
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