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...
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?
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
Introduction
The increasing political and administrative pressures on citizens, the human rights violations, censorship...