REPORT

Authoritarianism in Crisis: Resistance in Turkey under Erdoğan

Duru Selimkan
Pages 169–184| Published online: 18 April 2025

Selimkan, Duru. 2025. “Authoritarianism in Crisis: Resistance in Turkey under Erdoğan.” Marxism & Sciences 4(1): 169–184.
https://doi.org/10.56063/MS.2301.04104

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