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How an Islamist party managed to legitimate its authoritarianization in the eyes of the secularist opposition: the case of Turkey

Ihsan Yilmaza Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Burwood, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Mehmet Efe Camanb Department of Political Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, CanadaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9646-6929View further author information
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Galib Bashirova Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Burwood, AustraliaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4093-2916View further author information
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Pages 265-282 | Received 30 Nov 2018, Accepted 09 Oct 2019, Published online: 28 Oct 2019

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