Populism Through Uprooted Truths

The resiliency of Erdogan and the AKP, Part II

In part one of this paper, I elaborated the conditions for Erdoğan’s and the Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s successes in Turkey. I adopted Arendt’s discussion of the degradation of factual truth into opinion in modern societies and defined post-truth politics as based on a floating political space where the ...
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Populism Through Uprooted Truths