Since the elections of 2002, Erdogan's AKP has dominated the political scene in Turkey. This period has often been understood as a break from a 'secular' patter

While Turkey has grown as a world power, promoting the image of a progressive and stable nation, several policy choices have strained its relationship with the

Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped

This book brings together historians, political scientists, social anthropologists and legal scholars from Turkey and the EU. The authors address questions such