Tectonic changes are not occurring only in the world financial system, trading and investment, geopolitics, and technology; a fundamental...

Today, energy security is an important domestic and foreign policy matter and states are looking for alternative energy sources more vigorously...

This article aims to outline the history of Turkey’s relations with Russia in the energy sector. The energy relationship between these two...

Turkey’s energy policy is shaped by issues of energy security, and is based on two aims: avoiding reliance on imported energy sources and supplying...

Exerting influence in the wider Black and Caspian Seas region is becoming a crucial element in Russia’s current geopolitical strategy. Energy and...

Energy security has become an important international issue amid concerns about supply and transportation security from the Caspian region to...

The breakdown or modification of the Islamic Republic, though not imminent, is increasingly conceivable. However, in the event that the regime were...

This article deals with a recent opinion adopted by the Venice Commission at its meeting onMarch 12-13 concerning the legal status of non-Muslim...

This article analyzes the changing concept of “minority” in today’s Turkey. Minorities have been historically conceived as a “problem” by the...

There has long existed a Kurdish political movement with its illegal, legal, and semi-legal aspects of it. All of Turkey wants peace but most...

The Alevis, with their varied discourses, are in the midst of a deep intra-comunial debate as to how they will sustain their historical identity,...

The AKP government has undertaken a series of steps to understand and respond to Alevi identity-based claims. Popularly known as the “Alevi...

Turkey’s current government’s ‘democratic opening’ project has led to a series of political discussions regarding the cause and resolve of the...

Turkey under the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has represented an opportunity to go beyond the Orientalist...

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government has initiated a number of democratic opening initiatives to tackle with the Kurdish...

This article aims to analyze the process of AKP’s democratic opening in an historical and comparative perspective with respect to various other...

This article focuses on the ongoing process of transition in Turkey from a “homogeneous national identity”, which produced a notion of “equality as...

This article agrees that there is a transformation in Turkish foreign policy. It suggests that the changes in foreign policy are not aimed to...

This article explores the cultural politics of European opposition to Turkish accession to the EU. It argues that the foundations of secularism—the...

It has become a conventional approach to look at the impact of the political institutions to understand immigrant organizing patterns in the...

Immigration of Turkish guest-workers to Western European countries in the 1960s and 1970s laid the ground for the emergence of various...

This article aims to explore multi-faceted interactions among three segments of the ‘Turkish-speaking’ immigrant community in London, composed of...

This article attempts to analyze various aspects of ethnic and religious identity configurations among the Turkish Sunni Muslims in Britain and to...

This text discusses the case of Talip, son of Turkish immigrants to Germany and a recent convert to Islam. Specifically, the text addresses Talip’s...