Debate over the government system has occupied Turkey’s political and constitutional agenda for many years. Yet the discussions that have taken...

Even though they are not the sole forms of organization in a democratic system, political parties constitute the most effective bodies of people’s...

Countries often debate the issue of constitutional reform. Typically, such debates focus on whether a country should have a presidential,...

On 15 July 2016, Turkey experienced a milestone in its political history. An entity, judicially and officially recognized as the Gülenist Terror...

This paper sets out the historical background to the July 15 coup attempt. It outlines the Turkish armed forces’ age-old interventionist tendencies...

Turkey went through a civil rights movement, or a “silent revolution,” under the AK Party governments between 2002 and 2013, in which the legally...

This study aims to measure the social perception created by the impact of the July 15 coup attempt. The social picture that emerged during and...

This article explores the processes involved in the emergence of rival social imaginaries, as they develop in a cultural ecosystem, relating it to...

The current research has the purpose of analyzing Turkey’s approach toward Latin America and the Caribbean region through the prism of soft power...

This article focuses on the coverage of Gezi Park protests in the mainstream western media. It analyzes the details of the incidents and argues...

When considering the problems of media freedom in Turkey, two types of pressures come to the fore: (1) the first-hand and tangible pressures...

In this research I examine the effect of the military on Syrian politics and the uprising of 2011. I consider the military’s will to protect the...

This article analyses the EU’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, both inside the EU and in the Syria’s neighboring countries. It first focuses...

Despite all the intellectual energy devoted to understanding “what ISIS really is,” the group remains unpredictable and inexplicable for two main...

Germany and Iran, being the most populated countries of Europe and West Asia respectively, have shared a long history on various levels,...

As Islamophobia is on the rise in German society it also reaches into public institutions like schools. Not only students are influenced by the bad...

Motivated by the allegations of Germany’s indirect support for the PKK, voiced frequently in recent years among the Turkish public, this study aims...

Uncertainty about the state of the new global order and the dynamics that govern it permeate academic literature and policy inquiries. In this new...

In a curious and hitherto largely overlooked episode, the revisionist “neo-Ottomanist” ambitions of King Hussein of Jordan and Turgut Özal of...

As a concept, identity and security are deeply intertwined on many different levels. The relationship between identity and security evokes...

The Crisis of the Uyghur problem has transformed into a key element of China’s overall national politics, identity politics, international image,...

This article analyzes the two general elections in 2015 that followed the local and presidential elections a year earlier. These elections...

The results of Turkey’s June and November 2015 parliamentary elections are put in perspective in light of economic voting literature and observed...

Identity politics was one of the major dynamics in shaping the results of both the June 7 and November 1, 2015 general elections in Turkey. The...