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Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: Tunisia, Egypt, and Turkey

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This paper deals with the question of democratization in the Middle East and North Africa in recent years. The chosen examples are Tunisia and Egypt for the so-called Arab Spring and Turkey because it very often serves as a model for democratization in the Middle East on the one hand and the marriage of democracy and Islam on the other hand. Furthermore, due to its geographical and historical-cultural location, it serves as the interlocutor between east and west. A specific focus in the paper will be given to the role of new media in the protests for and the process of democratization.

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Correspondence to Tuğba Özcan .

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Özcan, T. (2017). Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: Tunisia, Egypt, and Turkey. In: Carayannis, E., Campbell, D., Efthymiopoulos, M. (eds) Handbook of Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy, and Cyber-Defense. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06091-0_8-1

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