Turkey President Recep Erdogan gained greater political power through the country's constitutional referendum, held April 16, 2017, but he failed to secure democratic legitimacy to shore up public support, research scholar A.Kadir Yildirim writes in this blog post for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog: http://wapo.st/2o7OJTp.
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Samih Al-Abid, Ph.D., is the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies. Under the auspices of the institute’s Conflict Resolution Program, he participates in the Baker Institute Israeli-Palestinian Working Group, both at the institute and in the Middle …
A.Kadir Yildirim is a fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute. His main research interests include politics and religion, political Islam, the politics of the Middle East and Turkish politics. Yildirim’s recently published book, “Muslim Democratic Parties in …
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