A speaking Turkey

During the 1991 electoral campaign, Siileyman Demirel, then leader of the centre-right True Path Party (DYP) and now President of the Turkish Republic, declared that he wanted to see a 'Turkey that spoke'. In spite of the deferred sentence of imprisonmentpassed recently on the well-known novelist Yaaar Kemal, and the continued detention of a number of prisoners of conscience, Demirel's aim has, by and large, been achieved. Never before have the problems facing the country been discussed as widely as today in the press, in the multiplicity of commercial television channels, in academic institutions and professional organizations. The debate is reflected in books published inside and outside Turkey. Diagnoses of Turkey's ills and prescriptions for their cure vary. But most recent books are inspired by the liberal conviction that even where problems derive from the functioning of parliamentary government, their solution must be sought not in a curtailment, but in the extension of democracy in Turkey. This assumption is shared by Semih Vaner, who, together with two other Turkish academics working in western Europe, Deniz Akagiil and

Conviction · Democracy · Government (linguistics · Political science · Sociology · The Republic · Turkish · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society

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