“The four parties that made it to the Turkish parliament have 45 days to iron out their differences,” said Evren Celik Wiltse, a political science assistant professor at South Dakota State University. “There are incredibly important pending issues for the country, including corruption allegations, resolution of the Kurdish issue and the burning foreign policy problems regarding Syria, ISIS and the rest of the Middle East.”
“Distribution of seats in the parliament requires the cooperation of at least two parties to form a governing coalition, which will have important consequences for the future of Turkish politics.”
The Ankara native recently returned from Inece-Kirklareli, Turkey, where she served as an election observer. She is developing a scaling method to evaluate legislators’ ideologies based on their parliamentary votes using two theories—policy blind theory and similar policy preferences.
Celik Wiltse, who specializes in comparative politics and international relations, earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, and her doctorate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
•Contact Evren Celik Wiltse at 651-788-0886 or [email protected].
Her work is featured in a Washington Post blog article titled, “Will Turkey’s recent election send the country back to the politically turbulent 1990s?”
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