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Ramazan Kilinc

Ramazan Kilinc is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Islamic Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of Alien Citizens: State and Religious Minorities in Turkey and France (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and a co-author of Generating Generosity in Catholicism and Islam: Beliefs, Institutions and Public Goods Provision (Cambridge University Press, 2018). HIs most recent articles appeared in Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Politics and Religion, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Turkish Studies. See ramazankilinc.com for more information.

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Can his Incursion into Syria Help Turkey's Erdoğan Consolidate Power?

Can his Incursion into Syria Help Turkey’s Erdoğan Consolidate Power?

Ramazan Kilinc

By Ramazan Kılınç | – Omaha, NE (Informed Comment) – Turkey is a country where the status of democracy and human rights has never been isolated from international developments. Turkey became a multi-party democracy only after it was threatened by Soviet Russia and put under the NATO defense shield. As I examined elsewhere, when Turkey […]

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