16.07.2015

Institutskolloquium: The Failures of Turkish Democracy

Roy Karadag, University of Bremen, at Wednesday, 22nd July 2015, 16 h c.t., Room 124, IfP

Turkey’s democracy is about to approach its seventieth birthday. However, it is fair to say that it has never looked as illiberal, defective or semi-authoritarian as in recent years. This talk will address these contradictory dynamics and discuss several explanations that make sense of the decreasing quality of democratic institutions and practices in Turkey today.

Roy Karadag is <link http: www.iniis.uni-bremen.de personen roy-karadag external-link-new-window external link in new>researcher at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen. He studied Political Science and Islamic Studies at the University of Tübingen and wrote his doctoral dissertation on capitalist orders in Turkey and the Philippines at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Currently, he works on the transformations of the Turkish state. His most recent publications include „Der Aufstieg der AKP aus historisch-institutionalistischer Perspektive“ (Zeitschrift für Politik), „The Ankara Moment“ in Third World Quarterly (with André Bank) and „Für eine historische Soziologie kapitalistischer Spielarten“ in Peripherie.