Emma Hjernø is a research assistant at The Middle East Institute, focusing mainly on Turkish domestic and foreign policy and violent extremism. She is currently finalizing her Master’s degree in contemporary Middle East studies at the University of Southern Denmark, specializing in Islamism and secularism in contemporary Turkey. She holds a B.A. with a major in international relations from the University of Malmö, Sweden, where she wrote her dissertation on Turkish foreign policy. Prior to joining the Middle East Institute, Ms. Hjernø served as a political officer at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Turkey’s General Elections 2015: High Stakes at Home and Abroad
Turkish citizens are going to the polls on June 7 to elect the next government that will rule the country until 2019. With an ongoing peace process with the Kurds, a stumbling democracy, an economic recession on the horizon, the prospect of constitutional reform, a stalled EU accession process, tension in Turkey-U.S. relations, and a region engulfed in chaos, the stakes have not been higher.
