{"id":27917,"date":"2015-05-28T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/me-tis-tourkikes-ekloges-ascholeitai-to-periodiko-southeast-european-and-black-sea-studies\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:04:29","slug":"me-tis-tourkikes-ekloges-ascholeitai-to-periodiko-southeast-european-and-black-sea-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/me-tis-tourkikes-ekloges-ascholeitai-to-periodiko-southeast-european-and-black-sea-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Journal analyses elections in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>On 7 June, Turkey will hold a general election. Although it is likely that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will secure a majority, the election will be an important one. Speculation and uncertainty are rife about the possible results of the elections and the consequences for the AKP, which has been in power since 2002 and is looking increasingly authoritarian under President Erdogan, and for Turkey as a whole. The war just over Turkey\u2019s border in Syria means that regional implications could also be significant.\u00a0No matter how the vote turns out, there will be repercussions for Turkey\u2019s Kurdish minority. The Kurdish-dominated People\u2019s Democratic Party (HDP) is projected to win something like 9%, tantalizingly close to the parliamentary threshold of 10%. In previous elections, Kurdish candidates have run as independents in order to sidestep the barrier, but the decision to run as a party this year means the stakes are much higher. In its latest issue\u00a0Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Journal extensively deals with the Turkish election.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"You can find more information here.\" href=\"http:\/\/explore.tandfonline.com\/page\/pgas\/fbss-turkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can find more information here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 June, Turkey will hold a general election. Although it is likely that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will secure a majority, the election will be an important one. Speculation and uncertainty are rife about the possible results of the elections and the consequences for the AKP, which has been in power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492,240],"tags":[],"program":[23],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44503,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27917\/revisions\/44503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27917"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=27917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}