Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, cilt.53, sa.1, ss.75-94, 1999 (SSCI)
Following the March 1994 municipal elections, Turkish mayors elected from the Islamist Welfare Party injected their ultra-conservative morality into the daily life of the cities they governed, while making improvements in municipal services. They also did nor prove to be immune to the kind of corruption which plagued their secular predecessors. Thus in the 1999 elections they will have a harder time winning "reaction votes," since they are no longer an unknown quantity. The disappointment of ethnic-Kurdish voters is another obstacle that Islamist mayors will have to cope with in the next elections.