Karabekir Akkoyunlu is a visiting scholar at the International Relations Institute, University of São Paulo, and a research associate of the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The defeat of the 'real' neo-OttomanistsIt was difficult to miss the irony of commentaries on the “triumph of neo-Ottomanism” on 24 July, when Erdoğan was...
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Published in: HomeContending with authoritarian Turkey: a measured realist perspectiveThis obsession with personalities can fuel the very passions and tensions that such individuals feed on, and obscure...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Carnage in Istanbul and the point of no returnOnce the external anchor of Turkey’s democracy, the EU‘s normative influence has sunk as low as its reputation among...
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Published in: HomeOld Turkish demons in new faces?The ‘deep state’ meets Erdoğan’s ‘New Turkey’. The country’s resulting predicament is much more dangerous than two...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From Athens to Kobane, winds fill Kurdish sailsCould Greece, through democratic elections, become for Turkey what Tunisia became for Egypt in 2011 through mass protests?
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Published in: HomeTurkey at a suffocating intersectionThe Violence Law can be seen as a site-specific implementation of intensifying methods to oversee the entire...