In September this year, amendments to Tunisian marriage law lifted a ban on the country’s women to marry non-Muslim men. The change was celebrated by women’s rights activists who have been demanding it for decades.
Turkish government officials have announced that in 2018, 20 percent of the budget will be spent on education. While Turkish governments have traditionally allocated large sums of money to education in the past, in the past five years the amount as proportion of the overall budget has doubled.
Those concerned about bringing democracy to the world will not remember this decade warmly. As leading democracy specialist Larry Diamond argues in “Facing up to the Democratic Recession” (2015), the global democratization trend has been in decline since 2006.
The social fabric of Turkey is not in its best shape.
