• Letter from the editors 

  İçduygu, A.; Rath, J.; Sert, Deniz Şenol; Üstübici, A. (Wiley, 2023-02-20)

  N/A

• (Non-)deport to discipline: The daily life of Afghans in Turkey 

  Karadağ, S.; Sert, Deniz Şenol (Oxford University Press, 2023-06)

  This study contributes to discussions on the politics of (non-)deportability by focusing on the case of Afghans, the largest migrant community without a right to protection in Turkey, itself the country hosting the most ...

• Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul 

  Birelma, Alpkan (Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-02)

  This article explores a successful unionisation struggle among garment workers in Istanbul. In the last four decades, Turkey has become a global showcase of authoritarian anti-labour neoliberalism and one of the world’s ...

• Populist radical right beyond Europe: The case of Islamic nativism in Turkey 

  Paker, Evren Balta (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023-06-16)

  Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) is one of the longest ruling among contemporary populist radical right parties (PRR). For nearly two decades, the AKP has shown tremendous success in achieving electoral dominance ...

• Spatial reason of the state: the role of space in protest repression in Turkey 

  Arslanalp, M.; Erkmen, Tülay Deniz (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  Between 2007 and 2019 the Turkish regime used protest bans extensively in order to impede collective mobilization. In this paper, drawing on Michel Foucault’s discussion of raisond’état and an original dataset of protest ...

• Rationalising pedagogy: what counts as skill across musical communities of practice in contemporary Istanbul 

  Şenay, B.; Gür, Faik (Taylor & Francis, 2022-06-22)

  Over the last two decades, the skilled practice of learning the ney (Sufi reed flute) has gone through a massive revival in Turkey, as part of a broader interest in the revitalised ‘Sufi music’ genre and in Islamic arts ...

• Double displacement of refugees in the context of the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake 

  Sevinin, E.; Danış, D.; Sert, Deniz Şenol (Wiley, 2023-08)

  This commentary is based on our observations during our fieldwork in the earthquake region in Turkey that took place in February 6, 2023 in 11 provinces where 49% of the entire Syrian population in Turkey live. In this ...

• Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case 

  Çarkoğlu, A.; Elçi, Ezgi (Sage, 2022)

  The rise of populism presents a challenge to liberal democracy in various countries. This article questions how populist attitudes affect the democratic preferences of the electorate. Using representative survey data fielded ...

• Aspirations among young refugees in Turkey: social class, integration and onward migration in forced migration contexts 

  Üstübici, A.; Elçi, Ezgi (Taylor and Francis, 2022)

  The prevailing sentiment is that refugees desire to go to developed countries rather than stay in their first host country. Based on a critical reading of the literature on onward migration, this article analyzes the ...

• TURKEY: Governing the Unpredictable through Market Imperative 

  Paker, Evren Balta; Özel, S. (Taylor and Francis, 2022)

  This chapter analyzes Turkey’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, arguing that Turkey’s authoritarian regime type rather than populism per se is the central factor in making sense of its crisis response. The key features of ...

• Caricaturing the enemy: caricatures and the Greek-Turkish War 1919-1922 

  Travlos, Konstantinos; Akyüz, D.; Mert-Travlos, C. (Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies, 2022)

  A century ago, the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1922 (Turkish War of Liberation/Asia Minor Campaign) was reaching its culmination point. The war was also fought in the pages of the Press. In this study, we look at the ...

• Letter from the Editors 

  İçduygu, A.; Rath, J.; Sert, Deniz Şenol; Üstübici, A. (Wiley, 2022-02)

  N/A

• Alienated imagination through a mega development project in Turkey: the case of the Osman Gazi Bridge 

  Sert, Deniz Şenol; Kuruüzüm, U. (Cambridge University Press, 2022-05)

  Since the rise of the ruling Justice and Development Party in the early 2000s, Turkey has invested in several mega transport and infrastructure projects for the purposes of economic transformation, growth, and development. ...

• Securitization of disinformation in NATO’s lexicon: A computational text analysis 

  Ünver, Hamid Akın; Kurnaz, A. (Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation, 2022-07)

  Following the Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections, disinformation and fake news became popular terms to help generate domestic awareness against foreign information operations globally. Today, a large number of ...

• Using social media to monitor conflict-related migration: A review of implications for A.I. forecasting 

  Ünver, Hamid Akın (MDPI, 2022-09)

  Following the large-scale 2015–2016 migration crisis that shook Europe, deploying big data and social media harvesting methods became gradually popular in mass forced migration monitoring. These methods have focused on ...

• Externalising externalisation and bad governance of migration in the EU: Turkey learning from Europe 

  Sert, Deniz Şenol; Alparslan, Şevval (Springer, 2022-09-05)

  While the European Union (EU) might not do likewise, Fortress Europe is definitely enlarging. Reports (see, for example, Akkerman 2018) underline the momentous growth in Europe's border externalisation policies using various ...

• From empires past to nation state: Figurative public statues in Istanbul 

  Gür, Faik; Taner, Melis; Türker, D. (Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  Statues, landmarks, and monumental architecture visibly mark and inscribe meaning into urban space. This is true everywhere, but it is particularly striking in Istanbul. When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in ...

• Insulating peace: Managerial coordination in durable security complexes 

  Travlos, Konstantinos (Oxford University Press, 2021-04-14)

  I argue that insulation via managerial coordination is a key element in any explanation about the formation of political regions among states. The key role it plays is as a tool for the maintenance of intra-regional pacific ...

• Food insecurity in the age of neoliberalism in Turkey and its neighbors 

  Öztürk, M.; Gür, Faik; Jongerden, J. (Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  Drawing on national and international data sets, we argue in this chapter that food security is weaker in countries and regions where conflict (military unrest, civil war, etc.) and neoliberal agricultural policies coincide, ...

• War and peace in the age of corona: an analysis of support for repressive state policies in divided societies 

  Gurses, M.; Paker, Evren Balta; Çelik, A. B. (Taylor & Francis, 2022-03-15)

  Unlike various natural disasters that some studies have highlighted as potential contributors to peace, the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic is neither short-term nor regionally confined. Thus, rather than invoking a ...

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