The author, who is an assistant professor of history at Bucknell University (Pennsylvania), provides us with an honest attempt to both assess what has occurred so far and analyze the possible outcomes of the people's uprising in Turkey. However, I would never carelessly use the word "democracy" to describe any existing government.
Provided the uprising is not quashed by murderous repression, hijacked by a nationalist discourse that serves only to empower the opposition, and does not fizzle out through exhaustion, it has the potential to create long-lasting changes in the practice of citizenship and representation in Turkish democracy.