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*This is an English version of an original article: Yavuz Yildirim, "Los Efectos Del Movimiento Del Parque Gezi En La Renovacion Del Debate Sobre La Democratizacion En Turquia" in: Un Retrato De La Turquia Contemporanea (eds. Federico Donelli, Alessia Chiriatti, Manuel Férez), Mexico: Universidad Anahuac Mexico, 2016, pp. 299-310.The text presents the history of attempts at democratization of the political system in Turkey, where despite the nominal presence of democratic institutions, changes traditionally have come from the top. Following a brief presentation of the unsuccessful civil movements from the 1970s onwards, it focuses on the 2010s transition in approaches to building democratic culture, and in particular on the Gezi Park resistance, where a relatively minor local issue sparked a country-wide citizens' protest against the conservative democracy of the ruling AK Party. The event is shown as an entirely new type of protest, a spontaneous civil movement with horizontal structure, inspired by the Occupy movements, and an expression of the new generation's approach to politics. It also gave rise to a movement which contributed to rethinking the Turkish democratization process by breaking with the established thinking with a bottom-to-top approach.

In Migrationsdiskursen wird einerseits von einem Zusammenhang zwischen Geschichtsbewusstsein und Integration ausgegangen, andererseits wird die heterogene Bevölkerung mit Zuwanderungsgeschichte als homogene Gruppe unsachlich zusammengefasst. Diversitätskategorien und generationelle Differenzierung bleiben dabei unbeachtet, wodurch gruppenspezifische Einblicke fehlen.Lale Yildirim hat daher an verschiedenen Schulformen empirisch das Geschichtsbewusstsein, die Integration und die Identitätskonstruktion autochthoner Schüler_innen sowie Schüler_innen mit türkeibezogenem Migrationshintergrund der dritten Generation erhoben. Die transdisziplinäre Studie analysiert den »Diasporakomplex« und das »doppelte semi-historische Bewusstsein« der Jugendlichen und ermöglicht eine Typologie historischer Identitätskonstruktion.

AbstractTo demonstrate resolution and psychological strength, players often engage in pre-contest communication by publicly stating their desire to win an upcoming contest. Existing explanations for this phenomenon revolve around incomplete information and signaling. In this paper, I offer a complementary explanation that does not rely on signaling. Within a complete information setup, I show that players may have an incentive for pre-contest communication if, in addition to an audience (reputational) cost when the statement does not materialize, the players also incur an audience reward (credibility gain) when the statement materializes.

This study explores the empirical validity of the purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis between Turkey and its four major trading partners, the European Union, Russia, China and the US. Accounting for the nonlinear nature of real exchange rates, we employ a battery of recently developed nonlinear unit root tests. Our empirical results reveal that nonlinear unit root tests deliver stronger evidence in favour of the PPP hypothesis when compared to the conventional unit root tests only if nonlinearities in real exchange rates are correctly specified. Furthermore, it emerges from our findings that the real exchange rates of the countries having a free trade agreement are more likely to behave as linear stationary processes.