About Oguz Alyanak

Oguz Alyanak, a McDonnell International Scholars Academy scholar, is pursuing his PhD in sociocultural anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He previously served as the Managing Editor of the Istanbul-based journal, Turkish Policy Quarterly.

Articles by Oguz Alyanak

One day in Gezi Park

These various analytical approaches to Gezi fail to see the space, time and actors as “in process”; that is, not as being but as becoming. 

Hearing out Prime Minister Erdogan’s silent majority?

She had gone to the city hall and asked the authorities to tell her whether it was possible for her to protest too; she was told she could if she wanted to, and so she did.

A tale of two Turkeys

It was a relief to hear that others were also bothered by the divergence between the realities of Turkey and the ways they are talked about outside the country. Amnesty International, for example, in its Annual Report 2012 has outlined an expansive record of Turkey’s failures.

Turkey's social monologue

Turkey’s remedy to ethnic conflict claims to be social dialogue, however this so-called social dialogue can only be effective once a common vocabulary is deployed and the actors truly listen to one another.

This week's guest editors

openGlobalRights editors

Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:

Emerging powers and human rights.

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