Judy Asks: Can Democracy Be Rescued in Turkey?

Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. In this issue Judy Dempsey asks: Can Democracy Be Rescued in Turkey?

Contributing experts:
+ Zeynep Alemdar - EASI-Hurford Next Generation Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and professor of political science and international relations at Okan University in Istanbul
+ Bayram Balci - Nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program
+ Rana Birden Çorbacıoğlu - Civil society activist
Kristian BrakelDirector of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Istanbul
+ Aykan ErdemirNon - Resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies

+ Hugh Pope -Director of communications and outreach at the International Crisis Group

+ Gönül Tol - Founding director of the Center for Turkish Studies at the Middle East Institute

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Turkish general election, November 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/turkish-general-election-1-november-2015/

ESO: Background information: Erdoğan regains majority rule http://www.europeansources.info/record/erdogan-regains-majority-rule/

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