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1	Status konsolidering: Turkiet : En fallstudie om utmaningarna för en konsolideringsprocess i Turkiet. / Status consolidation: Turkey : A case study about the challenges for a consolidationprocess in Turkey. Aksak, Rona Isabelle January 2019 (has links) Turkey is one of the most powerful and influential nations in the Middle East with many important alliances, but what is the status of the democracy in the country? This thesis aims to explain the challenges towards a consolidation process in Turkey. A case study is used as a methodology and the research question is analysed with the help of the theoretical framework from Juan Linz and Alfred Stepans with their five consolidation arenas. The analysis examines the civil society, political society, economic society, rule of law and state bureacracy in Turkey. These five arenas indicates to which extent the consolidation difficulties exists. The results shows that many internal factors, with civil liberties in danger, has complicated the democratic consolidation. The country’s history with several military coups and ongoing battles with the kurdish guerilla PKK has also kept back the democracy. Turkey Erdoğan AKP Linz & Stepan democracy consolidation civil society political society economic society rule of law state bureacracy Political Science Statsvetenskap