TESEV - Turkey on the Eve of Elections: Politics, Society and Judiciary

Dilek Kurban, Democratization Program director, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), and Etyen Mahçupyan, Democratization Program advisor, TESEV touched on the past, present and future of Turkish politics during a panel discussion hosted by the Kokkalis Program on March 30th, 2011.

This event was co-sponsored by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World, Harvard University. For more information about the Kokkalis Program, visit http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis.

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• TESEV
• Turkey
• Politics
• Kokkalis
• lecture
• educational
• think tank
• Society
• Elections
• Democratization
• Judicial Reform
• Judiciary
• Weatherhead
• CMES
• WCFIA
• Harvard
• Etyen Mahcupyan
• Dilek Kurban

[Atlantium1924]

They just wanna be famous using the minority conflicts which is so unprofessional and old fashion.We are tired of listening the same problems during last 200 years.Come on fellas be more creative on new issues

[Atlantium1924]

OMG is that the Turkish Think Thank trying to make interpretation about the politics,society and judicary?

Look at those people, they are even not capable to make a speech without paper,what a horrible accent:)come on guys,you make a speech in Harvard School,you shoul know what you saying.On my side,I would not pay them more than the min. wage if I manage this thing thank.I bet they pretend like I have given an impressive speech at the Harvard to their friends when they go back home Turkey.

[zissumanter]

Besides expecting democratic inclinations and respecting human right from basically a fundamentally religious group is unrealistic as well. There is no examples in the world . I am not just talking about non muslim minorities but I am talking about muslim group that are totally distanced from the sunni majority group. Alevi group had been struggling for their basic rights for years. Lastly It would be very naive to expect womens rights being granted from a deeply fundamental muslim group .

[zissumanter]

Either there is some memory loss or there is some confusion going on here. Just to remind you Turkish Republic is a very new state. It was founded after the dismemberment of Ottoman Empire during the WW1 .Ottomans have lost the war and disappeared from the face of the world. New state was funded with the idea of distancing itself from the humiliation of the dismemberment of Ottoman Empire.I believe New Ottoman idea is an unrealistic idea. Achieve this with islamic democratization?????

[zissumanter]

Why cannot we see the faces of people from the audience who question the panel?