Perspectives Turkey 8: Capital and Capitalists in Turkey
This issue opens with an article by Yunus Sözen that evaluates the local elections which were held on 30 March. Our special dossier is on capital and capitalists in Turkey. We analyze the varieties of business groups from Gülen community to capitalists of the Kurdish region. Democracy section features an article on recent internet censorship efforts by the government. As usual we have other interesting articles in our Ecology, International Politics, Culture and Human Landscape sections. We hope you enjoy the read.
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Table of contents
3 Editorial
Local elections
4 Authoritarianism and political crisis
Yunus Sözen
Capital and Capitalistst in Turkey
8 Gülen sect: Reached for the state, got capital instead
Ayşe Çavdar
13 Public–private partnerships: The fauna of corruption
Sermin Sarıca
18 Media capital and ultra-cross media ownership
Gülseren Adaklı
24 The political orientation of the Kurdish capital
Ayşe Seda Yüksel, Interview: İrfan Aktan
Ecology
28 Kavar as a development model
Nurcan Baysal
Democracy
32 Censorship of the internet: Fight against participatory democracy
Serdar Paktin
36 Everything is public now,
Gülfer Akkaya
International Politics
40 Turkey and humanitarian assistance
Sema Genel
Culture
44 Artistic expression and freedom of creativity
Turgut Tarhanlı
48 The privatization of art or the sphere of legitimacy of capital
Nurdan Durmaz
Human Landscape
53 Raif Türk: A Kurdish businessman
İrfan Aktan