Özgür Özvatan is a PhD candidate at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) with a particular focus on the mainstreaming of radical right discourses. Özgür analyses claims of established and radical right actors on belonging and (anti-)diversity in western Europe vis-à-vis the internal and external ‘Turkish other’.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightIs Germany’s AfD using COVID-19 measures to its benefit?The German party though internally divided about the measures, is united on anti-EU ideology to gain electoral support.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightMerkel’s dilemma: Germany’s polarising ‘Turkish issue’ returnsTo prevent such developments, mainstream parties need to shape political discourse, instead of being shaped by it.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Radical-right backlash against Games of Belonging: the case of Mesut ÖzilÖzil, like many others, has repeatedly stated that he would prefer to play for both national football teams if...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Feminism gone bad? Women’s organisations and the hard right in GermanyWhat kind of campaigning could outweigh the increasing power of implicit and explicit alliances by far-right actors...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?German-Turkish tensions in a collapsing Jamaica coalitionWhile the Turkish narrative in the close-alliance-cum-uneasy-stand-off between Germany and Turkey remained constant...