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About Ipek Kuran

Ipek Kuran is a masters student in State University of New York, Binghamton where she focuses on microfinance and corporate philanthropy. Born and raised in Turkey, she has her undergraduate degree in political science from a dual diploma program between Turkey and United States. She is currently an editorial intern at terrorism.openDemocracy.

Articles by Ipek Kuran

Monday 7th April

AKP in hot water

As Turkey's ruling Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party / AKP) prepares to lay out its defence today against the Turkish constitutional court's attempts to shut it down, Ipek Kuran argues that the court case is a chance for the AKP to prove its secular credentials. Much of the western press has painted the ongoing legal wrangle as one pitting the politically-motivated secularist judiciary against the democratically-elected Islamists of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party. But in the eyes of many Turks, Erdogan's party has dallied too long in the controversial arena of symbols, playing majoritarian politics in spite of the law.

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