Exit from democracy: illiberal governance in Turkey and beyond.

An essay on Turkey's exit from democracy and a shift to authoritarianism and an Islamist revolution is presented. It discusses the nation's illiberal governance including its quest to mobilize voters by polarizing society to unequal election campaign. It also examines the ideas and papers prsented at an international symposium on majoritarianism, populism an crises of liberal mode democracy, held at the University of Graz in October 2015.