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Introduction: Accelerating Political Crisis in Erdoğan’s Turkey Nikos Christofis Part I Politics, Transformation and State (Re)Formation 1. The Brutalisation of Turkey Hamit Bozarslan 2. The AKP Rule and the Directorate of Religious Affairs Mustafa Şen 3. On the Watch: Civil–Military Relations and Affective Politics in Turkey after the Failed 15 July 2016 Coup Attempt Sertaç Kaya Şen 4. Becoming an Autocracy Under (Un)Democratic Circumstances: Regime Change Under AKP Rule Rosa Burç and Mahir Tokatlı 5. The Enduring Politics of State Capture in Turkey: Situating the AKP–Gülen Concordat in Historical Perspective Simon P. Watmough 6. The Transformation of Citizenship Before and After the 15 July Coup Attempt: The Case of Civil Martyrdom Pınar Melis Yelsalı Parmaksız Part II Democracy, Solidarity and Hegemonic Politics 7. Making sense: Uncertainties, Anxieties and the affective politics of Denial in post-coup attempt Turkey 15 July 2016 Aimilia Voulvouli 8. Crisis of Hegemony, but no Counter-Hegemonic Project: Understanding the failed 15 July coup in Turkey Axel Gehring 9. The Poverty of State Theory: How Marxists in Turkey Read the 15 July Coup Attempt Özgür Mutlu Ulus 10. International Solidarity Perplexed: From the certainties of Gezi Park to post-coup complexities Leonidas Karakatsanis 11. Conquering the State, Subordinating Society: A Kurdish perspective on the development of AKP authoritarianism in Turkey Joost Jongerden
About the author
Nikos Christofis is an associate professor in the Center for Turkish Studies and in the School of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China. His work focuses on comparative historical analysis of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He has published extensively in Greek, English, Turkish, Chinese and Spanish. He is the author of Turkey in the Long Sixties: Left Politics and the Radicalization of the Student Movement (2020, in Greek); co-editor of Cypriots Nationalism in Context: History, Identity and Politics (2018), and editor of War and Resistance in Thessaly: Aspects of its History during the 1940s (2017) and Cyprus, the Left and Colonialism (2020) (both in Greek).
Summary
The momentous event of Turkey's failed coup d'état of 15 July 2016 and its aftermath challenges us to ask if the coup was the cause of Turkey’s present crisis, or simply an accelerant of trends already in motion, and thus a catalyst for the realization of Erdogan’s latent authoritarian impulses.
