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Dec 2019
1h 10m

Book Launch: The Rise of Hybrid Politica...

King's College London Department of Middle Eastern Studies
About this episode
This book launch highlighted the economic, social and political rise of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) as well as its political resilience over the last sixteen years. Speaker - Sevinc Bermek Sevinc is a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies and a teaching fellow at the department of International Development at King’ ... Show More
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