Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Taller de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos
Abstract
This article aims to offer a brief analysis of the way Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) governments in Turkey (2002-) have been related to the civil society. In order to do so it relies on Turkey’s recent history of the past three decades, treating the 2000s not as a break with, but as a continuity of the political developments of the 1980s an