Perspectives Issue 8

Series
For free

Political analysis and commentary from Turkey

Product details
Date of Publication
April 2014
Publisher
Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Turkey Representation
Number of Pages
56
Licence
All rights reserved
Language of publication
Englisch
Table of contents

3 Editorial

LOCAL ELECTIONS
4 Authoritarianism and political crisis,
Yunus Sözen

CAPITAL AND CAPITALISTS IN TURKEY
8 Gülen sect: Reached for the state, got capital instead,
Ayşe Çavdar
13 Public–private partnerships: The fauna of corruption ,
Sermin Sarıca
18 Media capital and ultra-cross media ownership,
Gülseren Adaklı
24 The political orientation of the Kurdish capital,
Ayşe Seda Yüksel, Interview: İrfan Aktan

ECOLOGY
28 Kavar as a development model,
Nurcan Baysal

DEMOCRACY
32 Censorship of the internet: Fight against participatory democracy,
Serdar Paktin
36 Everything is public now,
Gülfer Akkaya

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
40 Turkey and humanitarian assistance,
Sema Genel

CULTURE
44 Artistic expression and freedom of creativity,
Turgut Tarhanlı
48 The privatization of art or the sphere of legitimacy of capital,
Nurdan Durmaz

HUMAN LANDSCAPE
53 Raif Türk: A Kurdish businessman,
İrfan Aktan