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Published in: openSecurityTurkey bombs Kurdish forces as violence threatens to spill over
The law of unintended effects is in evidence as the rise of Islamic State threatens a potential resolution of...
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Published in: HomeTurkey and the Islamic State crisis: everyone's non-ally?
The military success of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq intensifies questions over Turkey's strategy and...
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Published in: HomeTurkey's Armenian opening: towards 2015
The approaching centenary of the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman empire is a moment for Turkey's civil society...
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Published in: HomeLeviathan in the lure of Mammon: limits of political Islam in Turkey
Turkey's political leadership has created a distinctive form of rule. But growing strains now make it harder than...
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Published in: HomeTurkey, from tension to transition
The fierce conflicts of Turkey's last year may create the foundations of a new socio-political consensus, says Galip Dalay.
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey: trade unionism on trial
As the Erdogan government in Turkey takes an increasingly authoritarian turn, trade unionists have been in the...
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Published in: HomeTurkey's struggle: Erdoğan vs Gülen
A series of escalating crises in Turkey is reshaping political alliance and enmities. It also casts a shadow over...
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Published in: openSecurityIstanbul in transformation
The Gezi park protests of June 2013 drew the attention of the world to a very urban conflict in Turkey's most...
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Published in: HomeTurkey and neoliberalism, a prequel to #occupyGezi
The drive to reclaim a people's right to their city led to the revival of Turkish civic identity and highlighted the...
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Published in: HomeThree-way conversation in Istanbul
Members of resistance movements from Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia come together on Gezi Radyo to compare experiences,...
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Published in: HomeTurkey’s "race codes" and the Ottoman legacy
The revelation that modern Turkey continues secretly to classify its citizens according to religious criteria...
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Published in: openSecurityFraudulent democracy and urban stasis in Turkey
Turkey's urban citizens are standing up against authoritarian governance, and for their right to the city, their...
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Published in: openSecurityWe take back what's ours!
We are the resistance. We are not victims. We are citizens with a duty to defend our commons, and we will not bargain.
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Published in: openSecurityIstanbul in lockdown
Another sleepless night in Istanbul as thousands of people take to the streets to oppose Erdogan's increasingly...
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Published in: HomeTurkey, from Tahrir to Taksim
The public demonstrations in Turkey are a challenge to the social destruction and political regression being pushed...
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Published in: openSecurityA u-turn in Turkish politics? Gezi Park in perspective
The simmering dissent and dissatisfaction unleashed at Gezi Park may not be enough to topple AKP's majority, but it...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkish hopes for a new beginning
Whether or not the protestors currently occupying Istanbul's Taksim square can evolve into an effective, open and...
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Published in: HomeProtests in Turkey: the straw that broke the camel’s back
Increasing monopolisation of power, patriarchal approach to government and a feeling of disenfranchisement by a...
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Published in: HomeTurkey, a people-power tide
The eruption of protest in Istanbul and other Turkish cities expresses vigorous opposition to the political...
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Published in: HomeTurkey's growing constitutional conundrum
Why does Turkey need a new constitution and what makes it so difficult to draft one?