A court in Paris has found former French President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case concerning illicit campaign financing. This development, culminating in a significant prison sentence, marks a notable event in the relationship between the judiciary and high-level political office in France. The Sarkozy verdict is not an isolated incident but...
This work was submitted by our founder, Emre Şentürk, to Prof. Dr. Kaan Renda on 26 December 2016 as part of the study module “Turkish Foreign Policy I” of the International Relations department of the Hacettepe University in Ankara. Almost 100 years after the founding of the Turkish Republic, there is a revived debate about...