• Born in 1990, Çıtak graduated from Bilkent University Faculty of Law in 2011. In the same year, he began working as a research assistant in the Administrative Law Department of the Faculty of Law at Gazi University. He obtained his master's degree with a thesis titled ‘The Principle of Social Risk in the Context of the Faultless Liability of the Administration’ and his doctorate with a thesis titled ‘The Jurisprudential Character of Administrative Law’. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting researcher at the Maurice Hauriou Institute (Toulouse, France). Çıtak, who has numerous academic works on various issues of public law, currently continues his work as an associate professor in the Department of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University.

Rethinking Elitism

The semantic shift that the concepts of “elite” and “elitism” have undergone in public discourse reflects not only political polemics,