The Turkish elections: augmenting polarisation
By Ali Rauf Jaswal
Published: July 17, 2015
A land that for centuries served as the centre for the greatest civilisations in history is going through an apparently endless political metamorphosis. For more than a millennium, this sphere was the middle point for the Eastern Roman Empire and later of the Ottoman Turks. Surrounded by the Black Sea and the Bosphorus, Turkey appears to be undergoing a never-ending process of political transformation. Turkey is an integral member of Nato, is geographically connected to both Europe and the Middle East, and is a secular state — a characteristic that makes it important in the eyes of the Big Powers.
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