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The last decade saw the most protests in human history. But how is it that so many uprisings led to the opposite of what they asked for?

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has never let a crisis go to waste, hopes to use money and the need for reconstruction after the quake—not jail sentences—to prevail in this month's election. But a united opposition is hoping the ground has shifted.

The Taiwanese Representative office in Vilnius officially began operations on November 18, 2021. It was the island's first new diplomatic

When violence erupted in Kazakhstan in January of this year, Abkhaz President Aslan Bzhania published a statement where he supported

April 20, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from New Left Review — Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural monuments and beautiful beaches. ‘A model partner’, Obama affirmed in 2009, as he congratulated the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). 1 Today, with perhaps 50,000 oppositionists in ja...

The story of Direct Foreign Investment in Pakistan and Turkish companies in Punjab December 22, 2020 Lahore, Pakistan: One can find a number of news in Pakistani media in which you can read that Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has a vision of enhancing Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) in Pakistan. PM Imran Khan is firm that Pakistan is one of the best destinations in the world for foreign investment. He has directed Pakistani missions abroad to pitch Pakistan as the best destination for I...

Authoritarian, islamist party essentially hijacking what was left of egyptian military. the military, on the other hand, its no way to build a democratic policy. im afraid this is, in fact, the wave of the future. >> how is the islamist government in egypt, how is this government different from the islamist government in, say, turkey? >> totally different. the turkish model is a model that was built actually in 1920 as a secular model. they resented the islamists. they forbid them from wearing v...

Elections, weve seen this elsewhere, elections do not equal democracy. and oftentimes if you move to elections too quickly, you can actually get the worst elements in society getting elected and ultimately wind up subverting the democracy. ultimately wind upsetting it back. behind all this, as youve been talking with all of your other guests, you have egyptian military which has done the right thing absolutely so far. but its not a democratic institution. it doesnt understand how to run a transi...