Browsing by Author "Canyas, F. Orkunt"

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Forming Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Competitive Authoritarian Contexts: the Case of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) Baskan, Filiz; Gumrukcu, Selin Bengi; Canyas, F. Orkunt
In competitive authoritarian regimes, forming a pre-electoral coalition (PEC) provides a mean for opposition parties to defeat the incumbent party. In Turkey, the ruling Justice and Development Party initiated a PEC by forming the People's Alliance with two other parties. Like the opposition in other competitive authoritarian regimes, Turkey's opposition parties also formed a PEC, namely the Nation Alliance. Looking at the political affinity of these parties by using their election manifestos and Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) data, the paper argues that while the People's Alliance was formed by ideologically close parties, the Nation Alliance was composed of ideologically distant parties, whose main aim, under a competitive authoritarian regime, was to prevent the incumbent from gaining a parliamentary majority.
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The Interplay Between Formal and Informal Institutions in Turkey: the Case of the Fethullah Gulen Community
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) Başkan, Filiz; Canyas, F. Orkunt
Supporters of the Fethullah Gulen community, an informal institution with an influential role in Turkish political life, have formed an international chain of schools and student dormitories, and a communications web that includes newspapers, journals, television and radio channels, as well as other companies and finance institutions. Although the community has no formal structure, its followers have established these formal institutions to integrate it into formal systems like education and the economy. This paper focuses on the community's educational organizations to argue that, since the community has preferred to pursue its goals within Turkey's existing formal framework, rather than by challenging it or breaking its rules, it can be defined as an accommodating informal institution rather than complementary, competing or substitutive.
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Turkey's 2015 Parliamentary Elections
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) Başkan, Filiz; Canyas, F. Orkunt; Gumrukcu, Selin Bengi
The 2015 parliamentary elections in Turkey marked an important turning point as the outcome ended the 12 years of single-party government by the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Apart from the main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), two other opposition parties, the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) and the People's Democratic Party (HDP), gained more votes than in the previous election. Significantly, by gaining 13.1 per cent of the vote, HDP managed to cross the 10 per cent electoral threshold. Since no party obtained enough parliamentary seats to establish a single-party government, the parties that are represented in the parliament had to form a coalition government which could have moderated Turkey's enduring social polarization. However, since none of the parties was able to establish a government, the president called for the early elections on 1 November 2015.