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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Tough season for the Turkish opposition
Ekrem Imamoglu, if he wants to be next leader of the country, has to go far beyond the local election coalition of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The next one hundred years – a salute for Agnes Heller
It is quite wrong to see authoritarianism as harking back to the past. Its threat is built into the times we live in.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightMerkel’s dilemma: Germany’s polarising ‘Turkish issue’ returns
To prevent such developments, mainstream parties need to shape political discourse, instead of being shaped by it.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDistancing to protect: the US role in preserving the Syrian regime
How the US prevented the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria by dissociating itself from it.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Turkish centre-right: soon over-crowded?
Throughout the early 2019 election process, İmamoğlu pushed the boundaries of the secularist main opposition CHP,...
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Published in: HomeTurkish government trying to blame Gezi Park protest on ‘foreign actors’, says imprisoned civil society leader
Osman Kavala says that he has been targeted by the government because of his involvement in civil society.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Noam Chomsky on co-signing Turkey’s ‘Academics for Peace’ appeal
Academics are lining up to support this appeal for peace and express solidarity with the targets of Erdogan’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Greece: July 8
July 7, the date of the national elections in Greece, has come and gone. But July 8 will not bring happiness to any...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe difficult relationship between the Kemalist CHP and the Kurdish HDP
Will the CHP take the election result, achieved through the support of the HDP, as an opportunity to finally abandon...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?In court with Osman Kavala: Turkey’s credibility on trial
"Kavala and the 15 other defendants are up against a state apparently determined to usurp the judicial system for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Istanbul mayoral elections: in praise of human agency
Hope is what keeps human agency alive. We die when we stop thinking we can make a difference.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?At the dawn of hope, trepidation: Istanbul’s elections, the Gezi trial, and civil society’s future
Ordinary people are sick of divisive politics and how it impacts their daily lives. So what now for the political...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMaking Rojava green again
Annotations to the booklet “Make Rojava Green Again” by the Internationalist Commune of Rojava.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Istanbul’s rerun is a battle for the soul of Turkey
Six summers ago, Erdogan’s social engineering efforts triggered their first major backlash in Istanbul. And this...
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Published in: HomeWhy is Turkey torn between the United States and Russia?
In the last five years, the majority of Turkish society has embraced anti-western discourses probably at the deepest...
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Published in: HomeTurkey's local elections were not free or fair
If Turkey can hang on to the remaining threads of its democracy and the fractured political opposition can organise...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe is criminalizing humanitarian aid
People are drowning while politicians claim that avoidable civilian deaths are required for the defense of “European values”.
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Published in: HomeTurkey: the post-election brawl – a regime at a crossroads
The mission that “revolutionary guards” took upon themselves in the aftermath of the putsch was to radically...
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Published in: HomeA letter from imprisoned Turkish human rights activist Osman Kavala
Writing from prison, a leader of Turkish civil society asks the judiciary to show respect for individual freedom.
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Published in: oDRHow Turkmenistan spies on its citizens at home and abroad
A mix of traditional techniques and new technologies allows the Turkmen regime to follow its citizens’ every move.