The Immunities of Authoritarianism: The Turkish Non-Responses to COVID-19

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2021-09-21

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Topal Yılmaz, Aylin

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My talk will be focusing on Turkey scrutinizing the state’s responses to COVID19 from broader perspective. I will not be dealing with health policies, per se, but rather providing the broader context of the current crisis. Presently the daily number of COVID-19 cases rose to over 20.000 with number of daily fatalities exceeding 250. In the face of these numbers, I will try to identify the immunities of authoritarianism even when the worse has come to worst.

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http://iippe.org/iippe-annual-conferences/11th-annual-conference-in-political-economy/
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/100349

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IIPEE Annual Conference

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A. Topal Yılmaz, “The Immunities of Authoritarianism: The Turkish Non-Responses to COVID-19,” presented at the IIPEE Annual Conference, London, İngiltere, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: http://iippe.org/iippe-annual-conferences/11th-annual-conference-in-political-economy/.