"A profile of Turkey’s coming elections: Baskin Oran
08.06.2007
Umut Uras
“Those who define themselves as Kemalist today in Turkey do not seek to reach the Western standards as Ataturk tried to. They are only trying to spread fear to the public in order to stand against the new dynamics.”
Turkey is going through a very tough period, which is very hard for foreigners to comprehend, even for me. Many citizens in Turkey are having a hard time finding a party that supports democratic rights, the rule of law and social democracy in the way it is perceived in the West.
Out of this mess, real social democrat circles including various NGOs and political parties, have decided to follow a method in order to make their way to the Turkish Parliament by avoiding the 10% threshold of the Turkish Electoral System. The movement came up after an article that appeared in the Turkish daily Radikal by Prof. Ahmet Insel and P"
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