What Went Wrong İn Turkey?

AKP took office in 2002 with the promises to consolidate democracy, institutionalize the rule of law and deepen respect for human rights. After a period of reforms on the path to EU membership, the party has turned against its own success.Why has the AKP changed and gone authoritarian?How Turkey drifted from being a 'model country' that reconciles Islam with democracy to a country of political chaos and civil strife?What went wrong in Turkey?Is Turkey under the AKP rule a case for illiberal democracy or a post?modern authoritarianism with Islamic references?Can Turkey's de?democratization be stopped?This is the story of the Islamists who failed to be democrats.Professor Ihsan Dagi is a member of the faculty in the Department of International Relations at the Middle EastTechnical University.(Tanıtım Bülteninden)Sayfa Sayısı: 200Baskı Yılı: 2015Dili: İngilizceYayınevi: Phoenix