Florida International University
Dilara Hekimci is a political science Ph.D. student and a graduate teaching assistant at Florida International University. Additionally, she received her Ph.D. from Bahçesehir University. She is currently writing her dissertation on the opposition parties’ strategies to counter populism in Turkey and Hungary.
Playing the Victim Card: Populism against the Authoritarian Baggage of the Opposition in Turkey
This paper scrutinizes how populist leaders (Erdogan) promote a victimization narrative focusing on various injustices under former authoritarian successor parties (the CHP) in order to maintain power in Turkey.
Sessions
Topics on the Middle East