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Published in: HomeTurkey, from tension to transitionThe 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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Published in: openSecurityA u-turn in Turkish politics? Gezi Park in perspective
The simmering dissent and dissatisfaction unleashed at Gezi Park may not be enough to topple AKP's majority, but it...
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Published in: openSecurityTurkish hopes for a new beginningWhether or not the protestors currently occupying Istanbul's Taksim square can evolve into an effective, open and...
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Published in: HomeProtests in Turkey: the straw that broke the camel’s back
Increasing monopolisation of power, patriarchal approach to government and a feeling of disenfranchisement by a...
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Published in: HomeTurkey, a people-power tide
The eruption of protest in Istanbul and other Turkish cities expresses vigorous opposition to the political...
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Published in: HomeTurkey's growing constitutional conundrumWhy does Turkey need a new constitution and what makes it so difficult to draft one?
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Published in: HomeTurkey, the end of Islamism with a human face
Turkey's AKP government has over a decade promised a new model of governance: progressive and reformist, Islamist...
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Published in: HomeTurkey’s Kurdish policy: sleepwalking to crisis
A mix of inheritance, repression and strategic vacuity is pulling Turkey's leadership into a long-term Kurdish...
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Published in: HomeTurkey, Kurds, Iraq, Syria: a new regional dynamic
The middle-east’s power-balance is in flux amid state tensions and political conflicts. In a two-part article, Bill...
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Published in: HomeTurkey and the Armenians: politics of history
A new generation's encounter with the Armenian genocide of 1915 is producing fresh understandings of Turkey's - and...
