Oguz Alyanak - openDemocracy (Page 3)

Cashing in on the human rights regime

When all a politician needs to do is to pay the price of his/her misdemeanor and move on—which does not even come out of his/her own pocket but rather that of the taxpayer’s—would any politician prefer to take the blow personally?

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 2 Oct 2013

Cashing in on the human rights regime

When all a politician needs to do is to pay the price of his/her misdemeanor and move on—which does not even come out of his/her own pocket but rather that of the taxpayer’s—would any politician prefer to take the blow personally?

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 2 Oct 2013

Syria: a moral intervention

Who will be there to teach us about morality, and to speak of yet another moral intervention when pictures of brutality show up on our screens, this time committed by the coalition of the “morally righteous”?

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 9 Sep 2013

Democracy's hall of mirrors in the post-Gezi world? A call for global dialogue

With the Ergenekon verdict, Turkey was to put behind it a history of coup d’états, and to open a new page by convicting generals (whose raison d’etre for the past 30 years was to fight terrorism) for participating in what is now officially a ‘terrorist organization’.

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 19 Aug 2013

Why care about international prestige?

There was once a time when the Turkish Prime Minister was hailed for constructing a model country for the Middle East. Today, the picture is very different.

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 2 Aug 2013

Testing what we learned in Gezi Park

In order for us to reach out to Diyarbakir, we needed a counter-narrative. Gezi was that teaching experience. But what was learned at Gezi had to be put to the test.

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 9 Jul 2013

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.

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 19 Jun 2013

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.

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 10 Jun 2013

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.

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 20 Jun 2012

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.

By Oguz Alyanak

/ 31 Aug 2011