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Turkish Parliamentary Elections (1981-2007)

Turnout in Turkey

Iranian Presidential Elections (2005-2009)

2005 Iranian Elections

Kurdish Insurgents (2003-2009)

Kurdish Insurgent Cohors

Tehran Surveys (2003 & 2008)

How much democracy ests in Iran?
  2005 WVS Iran 2008 Tehran
(1-2)/Not al all 14 17
(3-4)/A little 20 32
(5-6)/To a limited extent 37 33
(7-8)/Exists 21 13
(9-10)/ Very much exists 8 5
Number of Respondents 2,625 537

All numbers are in percentages except for the last row. In the 2005 Iranian World Values Survey (WVS), people are asked “how democratic is your country?” On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 stands for not democratic at all, 10 for completely democratic. In the Tehran 2008 survey, people are asked, “in your opinion, how much democracy exists in the country?” “Don’t Knows” and “No Answers” are coded as missing data.