CALL OF PAPERS – CfA CEST Symposium, Sciences Po Paris, Nov. 17-18: State, Party, and Society in Turkey and Beyond Deadline: 15 June 2023
The Centre for International Studies at Sciences Po, together with the Consortium of European Symposia on Turkey (CEST), is delighted to invite paper submissions for a Symposium to be held on November 17-18th, 2023 at Sciences Po in Paris, France. The topic “State, Party, Society” hints at a debate on Turkey in the last years, both in the media and academia, around the question of how to qualify the place and role of the hegemonic party in the political field. Has Turkey under the AKP/Justice and Development Party rule become a “state party” or perhaps a “party state”? To what extent do these qualifications make sense, what do they uncover and enlighten – and possibly make invisible? This questioning has