Dila Gurses

Dila is a researcher & PhD candidate at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on alternative, non-western modernity frameworks, secularism theory, gender and LGBT rights in Turkey.

President Erdogan and the gender repercussions of political Islam

Can a new victorious president, ready to transform Turkey, sustain a Muslim modernity while bypassing the individual rights and liberties of women and gay citizens?

By Dila Gurses

/ 20 Aug 2014

'Too moral' to run for a democratic government? We might think again

Respect for the rule of law, human rights and freedom of expression – how to implement these practices should be the focus of researchers and policy makers, rather than being trapped into the banality of accusing Islam of tyranny.

By Dila Gurses

/ 1 Oct 2013