Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Julian de Medeiros is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of Kent. He specializes in Turkish and Brazilian politics, and is currently researching state responses to protest movements in global swing states.
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Published in: HomeThe wall isn’t a state of emergency but a state of exceptionThe German legal scholar and Nazi ideologue Carl Schmitt described a ‘State of Exception’ as the process by which a...
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Published in: HomeLike Erdogan, Trump is using conspiracy theory to sabotage democracy: here’s what we learn from the Turkish experienceThe accusation of conspiracy within the State is not just a red herring, it is a strategy meant to turn American...
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Published in: HomeTurkish academics know the danger of post-truth. We can learn from their experienceThe belief that there exists a central truth that can be secured from above yet that remains somehow liberal rather...
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Published in: HomeTurkey’s universities are being purged: we cannot afford to look the other wayWe must keep in mind that as academics we are at our best, not when we agree to disagree, but exactly when we...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Don’t be fooled: Brexit or Bremain, both want us to fear TurkeyIronically, Britain’s PM did not counter the slanderous comments made against Turks, but instead sought to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?In the Erdogan vs. Böhmermann crisis, the real comedians are the politicians themselvesIt is hard to shake the feeling that the real reason why the Böhmermann crisis has exceeded all rational proportions...