Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s insistence on demolishing Gezi Park and building a shopping mall on it was only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the causes behind the demonstrations that have shaken Turkey. The real reason is composed of three elements: rising authoritariani..
Koray Caliskan
Koray Çalışkan is Associate Professor of politics at Boğaziçi University. He is a columnist in Radikal and an analyst at Haberturk TV. He received PhD with distinction from NYU. His dissertation was on Egypt, Turkey, and the US.