[Öffentliche Meinungen] „Gezi ist jetzt acht“ (I): Istanbul zwischen Farbenfreude und Ergrauen

Vor ein paar Tagen kursierte in den Online Social Media die Botschaft "Gezi ist acht Jahre alt" (Gezi 8 yaşında) -- als handle es sich bei den türkischen Protesten vom Spätfrühling und Sommer 2013 um ein kleines Kind, das allmählich heranwächst. Ein geschlagenes Kind, muss man jedoch dazu sagen: wie wahrscheinlich noch die meisten Türkei...

[Public Diplomacy] The neo-right wing trend across Europe and Turkey: can coalitions of municipal leaders challenge populism?

In this contribution, I will discuss if political coalitions of liberal-minded local governments can challenge the rise of neo-right wing populism at the state level. I was intrigued and motivated by Sezin Öney's article from 24.12.2019, published in English on Gazete Duvar. [1] In her article, Öney comments on the recent alliance of metropolitan mayors...

[Politik] Civilian death and martyrdom in academia

I listened to that name yesterday, in a podcast of Açık Radyo (Open Radio), with some delay. And I realized -- and I actually realize similar absurdities all the time -- that scholars quoted in my masters thesis, in my dissertation (underway & in spe), so far living in footnotes and elsewhere in my writings,...

[Politik] From Suruç to the suspension of the European Convention on Human Rights

There is this amazing software tool Evernote, which I generally use to store online news articles and other non-confidential documents of all kind somewhere in "the cloud". To make the respective document easily retrievable by intuition, you can immediately add one or more tags. For instance, if you want to save an article on Recep...