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Alphan Telek is a PhD candidate at Science Po Paris and Boğaziçi University, İstanbul. He is the Director of Turkey Office of Political and Social Research Institute of Europe (PS:EUROPE). @AlphanTelek

Articles by Alphan Telek

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Political precariat

Alphan Telek 9 May 2018

The concept of the precariat has explanatory power day-to-day and transformative potential in the socio-political world. For a just and honorable life, we need the political precariat.

The rising precariat and left-transformation: an examination of the Five Star Movement and Corbyn’s Labour Party

Alphan Telek and Seren Selvin Korkmaz 2 April 2018

Corbyn’s Labour like the Five Star Movement has adopted a policy agenda based on political and social justice.

The return of ‘class and social justice’ in Iran and Tunisia

Alphan Telek 4 February 2018

The new dimension of these social upheavals was a coalition between young educated people who think they have no future under the current system, and the least advantaged groups.

The origins of populism: bogus-democracy and capitalism

Seren Selvin Korkmaz and Alphan Telek 21 December 2017

The reality of racism, hatred, anger, insecurity and inequalities is spreading irresistibly. There is no way of escaping from all these daily phenomena unless there is an alternative systemic project to challenge it. Español.

Left-transformation versus left-populism: why it matters

Alphan Telek and Seren Selvin Korkmaz 21 December 2017

The perception of political justice that transforms is very different from the discursive tool of the “national will” used by populists who degrade democracy by equating it with the ballot box.