Diplomatic relations between Suriname and Turkey have been improving consistently since the now infamousDecember murders.
On December 8, 1982Dési Bouterse ordered a group of 13 dissidents, including a newspaper editor, two human-rights lawyers, executed, which came to be known asDecember murders.[2] The subsequent actions by Bouterse, which included setting fire[3] on the offices of the newspaper Vrije Stem caused a rupture in diplomatic relations between the two countries.[2]
Diplomatic relations were normalized[5] with the election ofVenetiaan, which re-established[6] relations with theDutch andTurkey, which led to significant financial assistance[6] from theDutch andTurkish governments.[5]
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^Meel, Peter. “Towards a Typology of Suriname Nationalism.” New West Indian Guide 72 (3&4): pp. 257–281. 1998.
^Menke, Jack. “Democracy and Governance in Multi-Ethnic Societies: The Case of Suriname.” in Governance in the Caribbean. Edited bySelwyn Ryan and Ann Marie Bissessar. UWI, St. Augustine: UWI School of Continuing Studies. 2013.
^abTimmermans, A. High Politics in the Low Countries. Functions and Effects of Coalition Agreements in Belgium and the Netherlands. 2003.
^abMenke, Jack. “Democracy and Governance in Multi-Ethnic Societies: The Case of Suriname.” in Governance in the Caribbean. Edited by Selwyn Ryan and Ann Marie Bissessar. UWI, St. Augustine: UWI School of Continuing Studies. 2013.
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Hoefte, Rosemarijin. Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2014.
Meel, Peter. “Towards a Typology of Suriname Nationalism.” New West Indian Guide 72 (3&4): pp. 257–281. 1998.
Menke, Jack. “Democracy and Governance in Multi-Ethnic Societies: The Case of Suriname.” in Governance in the Caribbean. Edited by Selwyn Ryan and Ann Marie Bissessar. UWI, St. Augustine: UWI School of Continuing Studies. 2013.
Thomas, Martin. Crises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe's Imperial States. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2015.
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