Tag: Democracy
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Three Branches of Government: Turkey’s Struggle to Understand Democracy
Turkey’s problems in understanding democracy, human rights and freedoms were always -at least partly- structural. In the last twelve years, the government in power made it practically official. Since the Republic of Turkey was founded, we have tried to meet civilised standards, sometimes it worked out alright, most of the time it did not. However,…
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Declare Independence? But Why?
I was sitting by myself in my room. Then I decided to declare independence. Now I’m officially declaring that my 20-square-meter room is an independent country (NOT!). But, wouldn’t it be great if everyone owned their own, personal country? That is the point, right? Other social, economic or political factors are bullshit. Everyone should own…