Turkey's Democratization Process

Carmen Rodríguez is a researcher of Contemporary Turkish Studies at Election Watch OPEMAM at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research interests include; democratization, political parties and Turkey-EU relations. Antonio Ávalos is a researcher at TEIM (International Mediterranean Studies Team) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, focusing on the political and military elite and secularism in Turkey. Hakan Yilmaz is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. His research interests include political ideologies and political culture in post-World War II Turkey; culture and identity dimensions of EU-Turkey relations; and external-internal linkages in the process of democratization. Ana I. Planet is a Professor at the Arab and Islamic Studies Department at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and director of TEIM (International Mediterranean Studies Team). Her research interests include Moroccan migration to Spain and political debates regarding Islam in Europe.