AKP’s ‘Conservative Democracy’ as an Empty Signifier in Turkish Politics: Shifts and Challenges after 2002

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2012-07-08

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Alpan, Başak Zeynep

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B. Z. Alpan, “AKP’s ‘Conservative Democracy’ as an Empty Signifier in Turkish Politics: Shifts and Challenges after 2002,” presented at the IPSA 22nd World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, İspanya, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/93735.