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International Affairs
Operation Syria: Erdoğan’s Victory, Putin’s Triumph
Mariano Giustino 13 November 2019

With the US completely out of the scene, the military operation against the Kurds consolidates the two clear protagonists of the new Great Game: Turkey and Russia. The Kurdish question remains, once again, unanswered.
Human Rights
From Jail to the Nobel Peace Prize, the Campaign for the Turkish Philanthropist Kavala
Lea Nocera 31 January 2019

The international campaign to support Osman Kavala’s candidature for the Nobel Peace Prize developed over an extremely brief period of time.
Human Rights, International Affairs
Europe’s Mistakes and the Rise of Turkish Ethno-Nationalism. Interview with Nilüfer Göle
Luca Steinmann 30 October 2018

Nilüfer Göle, is a well-known Turkish sociologist based in Paris. In the last 30 years she has been dealing with the development of the Islamic religion in Europe. Her studies are mainly concentrated on the disputes about the presence of islam in the European public space.
Human Rights
Turkey: life sentence for three journalists. The rule of law is dead
Fazila Mat 20 February 2018

The first aggravated life sentences for journalists since the failed coup of July 15, 2016 have been handed down in Turkey.
International Affairs
Erdoğan in Italy continues his “European renaissance tour”
Cristoforo Spinella 7 February 2018

Before embarking on his European ‘renaissance tour’ Erdoğan had expressed his doctrine rather clearly, stating that, “we must reduce the number of our enemies and increase that of our friends.”
International Affairs
In the Islamic world’s leadership void,
Erdoğan candidates as leader of the streets
Cristoforo Spinella 5 January 2018

In the Islamic world’s leadership void, concentrated above all on fratricidal struggles and caught off-guard by Donald Trump’s leap forward – or perhaps having allowed itself to be taken by surprise – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan aims to become the leader.
International Affairs
Erdoğan is now banishing his own men
Cristoforo Spinella 6 November 2017

When Melih Gökcek was mayor of the Turkish capital of Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appeared on the national stage as Istanbul’s highest ranking official. It was 1994 and victory in the nation’s two most important cities achieved by representatives of political Islam, marked a turning point in the balance of power in a country still largely in the hands of secular elites and governed by the army.
Political Theory
Getting to the Roots of the Illiberal Trends
Andrea Graziosi 24 April 2017

The world is experiencing an overt, cumulative and transversal illiberal trend, linked to appeals to the people, to identities, often to the past, and to demands for closed-door policies and order.
Political Theory, Society
India and Turkey: the Return of the Strongmen
Lea Nocera 24 April 2017

In November 2014, six months after the Indian general election that resulted in a landslide victory for the National Democratic Alliance and consequently for the BJP’s leader Narendra Modi,
Migrations
Two months since the EU-Turkey Statement: An unsuccessful partnership?
Bianca Benvenuti 19 May 2016

On March 18 the European leaders agreed on a plan with Turkey to stem the flow of migrants to Europe, called the EU-Turkey Statement, which is well know by now for its controversy. The deal was presented as the last resort for the EU to address the migration crisis amid growing division among the member states on how to handle it. During the summer of 2015, confrontation among member states grew, as two opposing strategies revealed different visions to address the migration crisis.