Oguz Alyanak

Oğuz Alyanak, a cultural anthropologist and holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently located in Berlin for his postdoctoral studies.

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