Politics Program
The primary aim of the program is to conduct competent analyses of Türkiye’s political problems and processes and to share these studies with political decision-makers and the public. The Politics Program focuses on Turkish politics, specifically on internal and external factors affecting this field. Political parties, the state, pressure groups, and democratic processes constitute its main areas of interest. In this context, it aims to contribute to Türkiye’s accumulated knowledge through field studies, publications, workshops, panels and conferences.
It builds on being “independent” and producing “community-oriented” ideas, by being aware of the difficulties in its field of activity in Türkiye, where political polarization is high.
Over time, actions become ordinary, and the more ordinary they become, the less effective they are. That is why, in such processes, taking bold, result-oriented action early on is often the most accurate...
Palestine today is no longer merely a topic of foreign policy or a regional conflict; it has become a litmus test for the moral conscience of our era—an ordeal that measures both individual and collective...
In light of recent political and economic developments, numerous survey studies have come to the fore in the public sphere. These studies indicate that, since the 2023 elections, there have been shifts...
Can a society that has lost its ethics have an aesthetics? At the point we have reached, this question is not merely a philosophical curiosity; it opens the door to a diagnosis that reverberates at the...
If this greatest nationalization comes to pass, all the main “political” actors on the national stage, from the very top to the very bottom, will have become spiritual heroes imbued with supernatural...
A political party’s chair’s proposal that “the President should have two vice presidents, one Kurdish and the other Alevi” has set off a debate that affects the dynamics of identity, representation, and...
For some time now, the cultural hybridization and social dialectic (synthesis) taking place in Türkiye has been drawing my attention. Social dialectic, roughly speaking, posits that a new social composition...
The second quarter of the twenty-first century is already being shaped by a transformation in which not only political borders but also technological power are redefining social imaginaries.
The downfall of a nation often begins quietly, beneath the surface. Even if the cracks are not heard aloud, the tremors echoing beneath its foundations grow stronger with time.
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It is now a truth that everyone recognizes: in Türkiye, constitutional debates never end; they constantly reproduce themselves, with attempts to solve existing problems by changing provisions in the Constitution...