AKP’s bid for political hegemony results in reversal of law reforms in Turkey
An article, from South European Society and Politics , is spearheading the debate into the reversal of rule of law reforms in Turkey, forming part of an important new special issue entitled ‘Is Turkey De-Europeanising? Encounters with Europe in a Candidate Country’.Turkish academic Beken Saatçioğlu, based at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, MEF University, Istanbul, demonstrates the depth and intensity of de-Europeanisation in the field of judicial independence and the rule of law in Turkey.