ISTANBUL POLICY CENTER-SABANCI UNIVERSITY-STIFTUNG MERCATOR INITIATIVE and INSTITUT FRANCAIS D’ETUDES ANATOLIENNES cordially invite you to the book launch of “Negotiating Political Power in Turkey – Breaking up the Party” edited by Elise Massicard (Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes) and Nicole F. Watts (San Francisco State University) The event is hosted by Ayşe Kadıoğlu (Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University & IPC Senior Scholar) Thursday, October 10, 2013, 18.30-20.00Istanbul Policy Center, 6th floor About the book: This edited collection looks at how political parties in Turkey actually work, inside and out. Departing from traditional macro-level analyses, the book offers a new sociological approach to the study of political parties, treating them as non-unitary entities composed of many