Ozan Aşık

Ozan Aşık is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge in the UK. He studies sociology of media and anthropology of news, and is currently working on television news broadcasting and nationalism in Turkey.

It’s the democracy, stupid

A comparative analysis of recent protests in Brazil and Turkey reveals that the economy is far from the only motor of these social developments. The challenge staring both governments in the face is one of political inclusion.

By Nuno Coimbra Mesquita and Ozan Aşık

/ 15 Aug 2013