The Political Crisis in Modern Turkey

Abstract

Abstract: The events, occurring in neighboring Turkey in 2015, attracted the attention of the whole world. Naturally, these events have become, first of all, the focus of interest for Georgia. As the situation in Turkey has always had a great influence on our country, consequently, it is necessary to have an idea of the processes, developing in the neighboring state. For the last fifteen years together with the rest of the world we have been observing with an interest and some anxiety the current political events, the activities of its charismatic leader – the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and an islamic party “The Justice and Development”. Although the founder of the Turkish Republic - Kemal Ataturk has established the new Turkey on the principles of secularism and europeism, a political life of the modern Turkey has become the symbol of the fight with these principles and so called Turkish religious “Traditionalism”.