Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation

Finding the three breakdowns of democracy and three retransitions to it since 1945 to be a rich laboratory in which to study the process, Ozbudun (political science, Bilkent U., Turkey) analyzes the politics of the period. He points out the challenges of promises to departing military governments, a fragmented party system, the rise of political Islam, and the Kurdish separatist movement, but predicts that democracy will continue in a weak form rather than collapse again.Ergun Ozbudun is the author of 'Contemporary Turkish Politics: Challenges to Democratic Consolidation' with ISBN 9781555877354 and ISBN 1555877354.