Aysen Candas

(PhD 2005, Columbia University Political Science) Associate Professor of Political Science, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Fields of interest: democratization and de-democratization processes, constitutionalism, basic rights of women, of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities in Turkey and Muslim majority countries, seculars of Turkey, social policies associated with regime types, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, liberal and democratic rights, indivisibility of basic civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights.