Omar Sadr talks to Bengi Gumrukcu on democratic backsliding, populism, Islamism in Turkey.
Bengi Gumrukcu is lecturer of political science at Rutgers University. She studies various aspects of social movements, political parties, far right, violence and Europeanization and Euroscepticism, mainly focusing on the case of Turkey.
Suggested readings:
Bengi Gumrukcu. “Populist discourse, (counter-) mobilizations and democratic backsliding in Turkey”, Turkish Studies, 2022
Bengi Gumrukcu. “Forming Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Competitive Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern, 2022.
Sebnem Gumuscu. Democracy or Authoritarianism Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia. Cambridge University Press
Hanspeter Kriesi. “Revisiting the Populist Challenge”, Politologicky Casopis/ Czech Journal of Political Science. 2018.