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How Utopia Became a Real Estate Leaflet?

Discursive formation of branded housing projects in Turkey

December 14, 2017 • by Bilge Serin

When it comes to gated communities, recurrences of similar everyday life images and spatial representations in mass media form a discourse of the future everyday life. It depicts an ideal living environment that aligns neoliberalization with an idealization of private urban services, commodified forms of housing production, enclave living and ...

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Swing Left

Trump year 1

December 10, 2017 • by Mete Egemen

I am originally from Turkey and I became a United States citizen in 2005. Since then, I have voted in all elections, primary, odd year, midterms and general. I am active with Swing Left PA-07. You might say I am bit of a political junkie. People ask me why I got ...

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Act One of Turkey’s Post-1980 Political Drama

The mysterious clearing of Turkey’s political stage

October 20, 2017 • by Phyllis Jeffrey

Given this depiction of the present, it would be surprising to learn that AKP’s first electoral victory happened somewhat by accident. In the uncut version of the post-1980 Turkish political drama, AKP is the second of two acts. It is Act One, not Act Two, that made the party’s hegemony ...

Democracy

Political Narratives and Authoritarian Consolidation in Turkey

Telling a different story about July 15

October 16, 2017 • by Ates Altinordu

Although more than a year has passed since the event, many details about the planning and implementation of the coup remain unknown. The “confessions” released to the public seem heavily filtered by the government, and a parliamentary commission charged with investigating the coup attempt has curiously neglected to question key ...

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Turkey One Year After the Coup Attempt

Erdogan has set up an autocracy

August 23, 2017 • by Ahmet İnsel

The proclamation of a state of emergency in Turkey on 20 July 2016, four days after the abortive coup there, has paved the way for the general rule of arbitrariness. The government, by violating the limits imposed by the constitution on the jurisdiction of the state of emergency, has since ...

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Educators on Hunger Strike in Turkey

A Call for Solidarity with Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca

May 12, 2017 • by Zeynep Gambetti

OUR CALL TO THE GOVERNMENT AND TO THE PUBLIC Tens of thousands of public employees in Turkey have been dismissed through statutory decrees (KHK) issued under the state of emergency (OHAL) that has been declared using the 15 July 2016 coup attempt as a pretext. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) ...

Multi Media

An Unhappy Marriage of Neoliberalism and Neo-mercantilism

Political economy of Turkey in a double bind

April 10, 2017 • by Yahya Madra

Economic commentators divide Justice and Development Party reign into two periods: the golden years of 2002-2008 and the lackluster years of 2009 onwards. This periodization may need to be qualified (and not only due to recently changed statistical definitions of Turkstat) by adding a third period starting roughly in the aftermath ...

An Unhappy Marriage of Neoliberalism and Neo-mercantilism

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The Fall of Turkish Democracy

Codifying Autocracy through Constitutional Amendments

March 3, 2017 • by Ertug Tombus

If these amendments are passed at the referendum, their main effect will be to concentrate power in the hands of the President eliminating any remnants of checks and balances, most of which have been rendered ineffective already. Many argue that if it is approved the new Constitution will mean a ...

Education

Turkey Dismisses Another 786 People from Universities in Post-Coup Crackdown

An Open Letter

January 30, 2017 • by Arien Mack

649 academics, along with more than a hundred administrative staff members, lost their positions at several universities. 41 of the dismissed scholars were members of the Academics for Peace initiative. Since July 2016, more than 120,000 people have been dismissed while nearly 44,000 have been jailed and more than 80,000 detained. ...

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Pre-Coup, Coup and the Media Intellectuals in Turkey

August 9, 2016 • by Hakan Topal

There are many unknowns about the July 15th coup d’état attempt in Turkey. Putschists, instead of taking down the leadership or shutting down communication, ineffectually closed off some roads, attacked government buildings including the Parliament, and killed many innocent civilians without clear operational objectives. The level of confusion and disorder ...

Pre-Coup, Coup and the Media Intellectuals in Turkey

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A Kurdish Paradox in Turkey’s Wine Country

August 2, 2016 • by Joseph Lombardo

It is June and I’m in Elazığ, a city of just over a quarter of million in eastern Turkey. Streets bustle with families and packs of young men clutching their tespih or prayer beads. It is a modern city, but at its height in the 1930s and 1940s, Elazığ served ...

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Pokemon Go, Turkey’s Coup, and the Irony of Reform

Past Present Episode 44

July 27, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: The whole world seems to be playing Pokemon Go. Natalia situated the app game in a history of bug collecting but also the long tradition of fears about technology. Neil noted fears about technology went back to the printing ...