Towards a post-AKP Turkey? Parties and coalitions on the eve of the elections

Yohanan Benhaïm is co-founder of Noria, director of the Turkey programme and head of contemporary studies at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA) in Istanbul. For his PhD in political science at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, he studied the relationship between foreign policy and the political-administrative field in Turkey since the AKP came to power. He is particularly interested in Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East, the sociology of institutions and electoral mobilizations in Turkey. He is an associated researcher at Cetobac (EHESS), and at the Istanbul Policy
Center of Sabancı University.

Elise Massicard is a research director in political science at the CNRS, CERI/Sciences Po. She was a scientific resident and head of the Observatory of Turkish Political Life (OVIPOT) at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA) in Istanbul from 2010 to 2014. As a specialist in the political sociology of contemporary Turkey, she is particularly interested in the sociology of institutions, mobilizations, parties, and state-society relations.

Alexandre Toumarkine is a professor of history at the INALCO, in "Contemporary Turkish History and Society. He has worked for 25 years in Turkey: in several universities in Istanbul as a professor, but also as scientific secretary of the scientific secretary of the IFEA and as senior fellow researcher at the Orient Institute Istanbul from 2011 to 2017, where he co-directed a Franco-German research program on new religiosities in Turkey. His research interests include Turkish foreign policy and its regional context, migration, the history of security institutions, wars and their memory, religion and its contemporary and its contemporary mutations.