{"id":2131,"date":"2014-03-27T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/27\/turkey-the-road-to-a-democratic-future\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:26:32","slug":"turkey-the-road-to-a-democratic-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/turkey-the-road-to-a-democratic-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: The road to a democratic future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10673\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/kadir-yildirim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10673\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10673 lazyload\" alt=\"Dr. Kadir Yildirim\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/kadir-yildirim.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"255\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 192px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 192\/255;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Kadir Yildirim<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The local elections on March 30 will possibly be one of the most defining moments of Turkish democracy. Ideologies or party platforms will largely be irrelevant. In fact, in an op-ed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/2014\/03\/turkey-road-democratic-future-20143247316702394.html\"><strong>Al Jazeera English<\/strong><\/a>, Furman political science professor Kadir Yildirim writes that the upcoming elections \u201cwill define the soul of the Turkish political system for years, and possibly decades, to come.\u201d Dr. Yildirim, who joined the Furman faculty in 2011, is a native of Turkey whose research interests include political Islam, politics of the Middle East, and Turkish politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local elections on March 30 will possibly be one of the most defining moments of Turkish democracy. Ideologies or party platforms will largely be irrelevant. In fact, in an op-ed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/2014\/03\/turkey-road-democratic-future-20143247316702394.html\"><b>Al Jazeera English<\/b><\/a>, Furman political science professor Kadir Yildirim writes that the upcoming elections \u201cwill define the soul of the Turkish political system for years, and possibly decades, to come.\u201d Dr. Yildirim, who joined the Furman faculty in 2011, is a native of Turkey whose research interests include political Islam, politics of the Middle East, and Turkish politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}