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| Introduction Gezi in Retrospect |
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| Bibliography |
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25 | (4) |
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Section I Gezi Protests and Democratisation |
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1 Evoking and Invoking Nationhood as Contentious Democratisation |
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29 | (16) |
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2007 Nation-Evoking Demonstrations |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (3) |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (3) |
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2 `Everyday I'm Capulling!' |
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45 | (14) |
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Global Flows and Local Frictions of Gezi |
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Introduction: Gezi and Rumi's Elephant in the Dark |
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The Politics of Public Space in Urban Turkey: Taksim Square, Proscenium of the Nation |
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46 | (4) |
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The Carnivalesque Citizenship of the Capulcu |
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50 | (2) |
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Gezi and the Discontents of Neoliberal Globalisation |
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52 | (2) |
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Conclusion: Gezi and the Decoupling of Liberalism and Democracy in Turkey |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (4) |
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3 The Incentives and Actors of Protests in Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2013 |
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59 | (18) |
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59 | (1) |
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Turkish Case: Political Change and Gezi Park Protests |
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59 | (9) |
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The Common Denominator of the Protests in Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina |
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68 | (4) |
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72 | (1) |
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Section II The Political Economy of Protests |
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4 AKP Rule in the Aftermath of the Gezi Protests |
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From Expanded to Limited Hegemony? |
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Understanding the AKP's Hegemony |
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79 | (5) |
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Neoliberal Populism and the AKP Rule |
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79 | (2) |
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The Explosion of Social Assistance Programmes |
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81 | (2) |
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The Symbolic/Ideological Sources of the Party's Hegemony |
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83 | (1) |
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The AKP's Hegemony after the Gezi Protests |
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84 | (2) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (2) |
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5 Rebelling against Neoliberal Populist Regimes |
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89 | (16) |
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Neoliberal Populism, AKP and PT |
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90 | (7) |
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Depoliticising the Question of Poverty |
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92 | (2) |
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94 | (3) |
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Preliminary Reflections on the Protests |
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97 | (4) |
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101 | (4) |
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105 | (16) |
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What do the Gezi Protestors Want to Tell Us? A Political Economy Perspective |
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Re-thinking Neoliberalism in Turkey under AKP Rule |
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105 | (6) |
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Re-thinking the Gezi Park Protests: What did the Protestors Actually Protest? |
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111 | (5) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (4) |
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Section III Protesters and Repertoires of Protests |
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7 `We are more than Alliances between Groups' |
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A Social Psychological Perspective on the Gezi Park Protesters and Negotiating Levels of Identity |
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Background to the Gezi Park Protests |
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121 | (1) |
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Social Psychological Perspectives on Collective Action |
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122 | (4) |
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Antecedents to Collective Action |
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124 | (1) |
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Creating a Group from the Crowd |
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124 | (2) |
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`We Are More than Alliances between Groups': An Identity-based Analysis of the Gezi Park Protest Activists |
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126 | (6) |
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132 | (2) |
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134 | (3) |
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137 | (16) |
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Football Fans Entering the `Political Field' |
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137 | (2) |
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139 | (2) |
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The Political Context of Turkish Football |
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The Hyper-Commodification of Turkish Football |
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142 | (2) |
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Politicisation of Football Fans in Turkey |
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144 | (2) |
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Fans' Reasons for Joining the Gezi Protests |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (3) |
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150 | (3) |
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153 | (32) |
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A Brief Analysis of the Gezi Park Protest Graffiti |
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What is a Graffito? The Features of the Graffiti Collected around Gezi Park |
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154 | (2) |
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The Role and the Function of Graffiti and Humour: A Short Conceptual Overview |
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156 | (2) |
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The Graffiti in Gezi Park: Humour or Resistance, or Humour as Resistance? |
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158 | (1) |
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Delivering Messages through Humour |
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159 | (20) |
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160 | (4) |
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Counterstatement or Intertextual Graffiti |
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164 | (15) |
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179 | (3) |
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182 | (3) |
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10 Where did Gezi Come from? |
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185 | (16) |
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Exploring the Links between Youth Political Activism before and during the Gezi Protests |
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185 | (1) |
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Social Movement Communities and Social Movement Spillover |
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186 | (1) |
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New Social Movements in Turkey |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (1) |
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Five Cross-cutting Themes |
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189 | (6) |
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Aversive Attitude towards Conventional Political Organisations |
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189 | (1) |
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Ability to Organise Horizontally and to Accommodate Individual Differences |
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190 | (1) |
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Ability to Work with Diverse Political Groups and Cooperate with Strangers |
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191 | (2) |
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Ability to Transfer Protest Skills |
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193 | (1) |
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The Gezi Protests as a Paradigm-Shifting Event with Respect to the Older Generation's Perception of the Relationship between Youth and Politics |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (1) |
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196 | (5) |
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Section IV The Politics of Space and Identity at Gezi |
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11 `We May Be Lessees, but the Neighbourhood is Ours' |
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Gezi Resistances and Spatial Claims |
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`Essentials Are Thus Cast Up': Space and Contention |
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203 | (3) |
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`(New Elements) Become Briefly Visible in Luminous Transparency': Spatial Claims |
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206 | (4) |
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`Events Belie Forecasts': Concluding Remarks |
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210 | (2) |
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212 | (3) |
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12 Negotiating Religion at the Gezi Park Protests |
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215 | (16) |
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215 | (1) |
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The Objects of the Protests |
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216 | (2) |
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The Place of Religion in the Protests |
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218 | (4) |
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The Position of Religious People in the Protests |
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222 | (3) |
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Democratisation vs. Polarisation |
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225 | (2) |
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227 | (2) |
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229 | (2) |
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231 | (20) |
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A Revindication of Public Space |
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231 | (1) |
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The Turkish Institutional Approach to Intervention in the Urban Environment |
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232 | (7) |
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AKP's Neoliberal Project: Taming the Commons by Taming the City |
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233 | (1) |
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AKP's Reliance on the Construction Sector |
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234 | (2) |
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Commodification of Culture and Monopolization of Narratives: Branding the City |
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236 | (2) |
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238 | (1) |
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Gezi: Mapping the Space Reclaimed and the Victory of the Commons |
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239 | (1) |
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Gezi Protests as a Reaction against AKP Policies |
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240 | (6) |
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The Value of Resistance in and for a Park: Creating New Senses of Belonging |
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240 | (2) |
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Responses to the Militarisation of Space: The Return of the Commons |
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242 | (4) |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (4) |
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Section V Gezi in an International Context |
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14 Gezi Spirit in the Diaspora |
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251 | (16) |
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Diffusion of Turkish Politics to Europe |
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Diffusion of Gezi Spirit to the Transnational Space |
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252 | (8) |
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Creating `Gezi Parks' in Europe |
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260 | (4) |
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264 | (1) |
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265 | (2) |
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15 Turkey's EU Membership Process in the Aftermath of the Gezi Protests |
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267 | (16) |
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267 | (1) |
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The Normative Meaning of Gezi |
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268 | (1) |
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Implications for Turkey-EU Relations |
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269 | (10) |
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Postponing Negotiations on Chapter 22 |
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269 | (5) |
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Negotiations on Chapter 22 and beyond |
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274 | (5) |
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279 | (1) |
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280 | (3) |
| List of Contributors |
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283 | (2) |
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