Alparslan Nas

Alparslan Nas is a research assistant in School of Communication at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. His main interests of research includes critical theory, sociology of literature and visual culture. Twitter: @alparslannas

Democratization in Turkey: the end of the First Republic?

Turkey is on a journey beyond AKP patriarchy, “Aleviphobia”, and those social classes opposed to the AKP who have their own totalitarian tendencies, who call for a restoration of the first republic. We have to show that a “third way” centered on libertarian and democratic politics, is possible.

By Alparslan Nas

/ 14 Oct 2013

Reframing the agents of resistance at Gezi Park

As the bearer of an underlying democratization process in Turkey with all its paradoxes, AKP still goes unchallenged insofar as the different groups of opposition who became visible in Gezi Park still cannot put forth convincing arguments to win the “50 per cent”.

By Alparslan Nas

/ 17 Jul 2013