Is Turkey, After Gezi Protests, On Path to Democratization?
By: Orhan Kemal Cengiz for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on September 19.
Since the Gezi protests that began at a small park in Istanbul in May and then spread in waves to the entire country, a heated debate has been raging about the direction the regime in Turkey is headed. Will the government undertake increasingly authoritarian and fascist actions in response to the protests? Will some already problematic democratic rights and freedoms be even more restricted? If the regime becomes increasingly authoritarian, will Turkey be splintered from Europe and the West?
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