"Why It's Crucial For Turkey's AKP Party To Win Over Its Opposition NOW
İlter Türkmen, Guide Istanbul | Jun. 20, 2011, 10:17 AM | 29 |
İlter Türkmen
İlter Türkmen is a Turkish diplomat who served as the Foreign Minister of Turkey in 1980-1983.
Multiparty democracy was established in Turkey in 1950.
But it has since witnessed many ups and downs.
The democratic process was interrupted several times by direct military interventions or indirect military interferences—the strong Jacobin state structure started to be dismantled only in the 1980s under the late Turgut Özal who, as Prime Minister and subsequent President of the Republic, liberalized and reformed the economy and the state bureaucracy."
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