Domestic Policy

Gezi Park: An Attempt to Break Free from Grand Narratives

Gezi Park: An Attempt to Break Free from Grand Narratives Introduction: Istanbul’s Liberal Awakening It took me a while to realize that the whistling was coming...

Turkish Court of Accounts in Crisis: An Urgent Problem, Yet not a Main Concern?

Turkish Court of Accounts in Crisis: An Urgent Problem, Yet not a Main Concern? Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone. "But which is the...

Reclaiming the Public Sphere in Turkey:  Arendtian and Habermasian Interpretation of Forums

Gezi Park Resistance Article Series – No. 14 Reclaiming the Public Sphere in Turkey:  Arendtian and Habermasian Interpretation of Forums The summer of 2013 was beset...

Initiatives for Solving the Kurdish Question: A Contradiction or “an Ideological Consistency” of AKP?

Initiatives for Solving the Kurdish Question: A Contradiction or “an Ideological Consistency” of AKP? Introduction  After almost eleven years of the Justice and Development Party (AKP)...

Turkey’s Increasing Dilemmas: Old Routines, Gezi Park, Ergenekon and the Rule of Self-Censorship

Turkey’s Increasing Dilemmas: Old Routines, Gezi Park, Ergenekon and the Rule of Self-Censorship Introduction The increasing political and administrative pressures on citizens, the human rights violations, censorship...

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