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.
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...
A Perspective on the AK Party – DEM – MHP Cooperation in Light of the Changing Profile of MHP Voters
The political line pursued by the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) after the June 7, 2015 elections created the most critical rupture in the party’s history.
Throughout history, the female body has been shaped not merely as a biological entity, but also as a site of ideological, social, and political struggle.
Recent public opinion polls in Türkiye indicate that the AK Party, which emerged as the leading party in the 2023 elections, has seen a relative decline in its vote share and has dropped to second pla...
During the top-down appointment of a rector at Boğaziçi University, many people reacted against a columnist’s characterization of “elitism”.
Within opposition circles, every eye is fixed on the “Congress-annulment lawsuit” scheduled for 30 June. The prospect that the results of the CHP’s 38th Ordinary Congress—where the party leadership changed...
