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Is Türkiye still a democracy? Or is it a completely authoritarian regime? In this book, we examine the situation that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) took over in 2002.
flawed democracy under the rule of "competitive authoritarian" We defend the thesis that it transformed into a regime called.
This definition emphasizes that the regime in Turkey is neither democratic nor fully authoritarian, and reveals its mixture of the two, that is, its "hybrid" structure. In authoritarian regimes, citizens do not have the opportunity to determine the government. For this reason, Türkiye is not a completely authoritarian regime. Because elections are still held at regular intervals in which different political parties compete with each other.
and the legislative and executive powers are determined as a result of these elections.
However, elections in Turkey can be held under neither fair nor free conditions. Therefore, Türkiye can be described as neither a full democracy nor a full autocracy.