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Published in: HomeTurkey's future: Erdoğan, elections and the KurdsTurkey is gearing up for pivotal elections on 7 June. At their heart is a complex interplay between presidential...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey and Armenia: genocide? what genocide?April 1915 saw the start of the genocide against Armenians and other minorities in the former Ottoman Empire....
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Published in: openSecurityNew security laws could make Turkey into a police stateThe latest crackdown on journalists in Turkey is another twist in the spiral into authoritarianism of a state bereft...
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Published in: openSecurityThe European Kurds rallying to fight ISWith Kurds in Iraq and Syria under attack from the Islamic State, many young Kurds in Europe have been joining...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey, Kobane and the Kurdish questionThe US wants Turkey to join the military effort against Islamic State at Kurdish-dominated Kobane, across the Syrian...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey bombs Kurdish forces as violence threatens to spill overThe law of unintended effects is in evidence as the rise of Islamic State threatens a potential resolution of...
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Published in: HomeTurkey and the Islamic State crisis: everyone's non-ally?
The military success of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq intensifies questions over Turkey's strategy and...
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Published in: HomeTurkey's Armenian opening: towards 2015
The approaching centenary of the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman empire is a moment for Turkey's civil society...
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Published in: HomeLeviathan in the lure of Mammon: limits of political Islam in Turkey
Turkey's political leadership has created a distinctive form of rule. But growing strains now make it harder than...
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Published in: HomeTurkey, from tension to transition
The fierce conflicts of Turkey's last year may create the foundations of a new socio-political consensus, says Galip Dalay.
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey: trade unionism on trialAs the Erdogan government in Turkey takes an increasingly authoritarian turn, trade unionists have been in the...
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Published in: HomeTurkey's struggle: Erdoğan vs Gülen
A series of escalating crises in Turkey is reshaping political alliance and enmities. It also casts a shadow over...
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Published in: openSecurityIstanbul in transformationThe Gezi park protests of June 2013 drew the attention of the world to a very urban conflict in Turkey's most...
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Published in: HomeTurkey and neoliberalism, a prequel to #occupyGeziThe drive to reclaim a people's right to their city led to the revival of Turkish civic identity and highlighted the...
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Published in: HomeThree-way conversation in Istanbul
Members of resistance movements from Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia come together on Gezi Radyo to compare experiences,...
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Published in: HomeTurkey’s "race codes" and the Ottoman legacy
The revelation that modern Turkey continues secretly to classify its citizens according to religious criteria...
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Published in: openSecurityFraudulent democracy and urban stasis in Turkey
Turkey's urban citizens are standing up against authoritarian governance, and for their right to the city, their...
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Published in: openSecurityWe take back what's ours!
We are the resistance. We are not victims. We are citizens with a duty to defend our commons, and we will not bargain.
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Published in: openSecurityIstanbul in lockdownAnother sleepless night in Istanbul as thousands of people take to the streets to oppose Erdogan's increasingly...
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Published in: HomeTurkey, from Tahrir to TaksimThe public demonstrations in Turkey are a challenge to the social destruction and political regression being pushed...
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