The Cost of the Base–Elite Divide in CHP: The Next Election?
Over time, actions become ordinary, and the more ordinary they become, the less effective they are. That is why, in
20 October 2025
A Mirror to the Collective Consciousness: The Palestinian Test of Turkish Society
Palestine today is no longer merely a topic of foreign policy or a regional conflict; it has become a litmus
13 October 2025
Gaza, Humanitarian Intervention, and the United Nations
The 80th United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which brought together world leaders in New York, had one indisputable focal point:
6 October 2025
Using Alternative Data Sources in Turkish Politics: What Do Google Trends Tell Us?
In light of recent political and economic developments, numerous survey studies have come to the fore in the public sphere.
2 October 2025
Türkiye-Iraq Relations on the Geoeconomic Axis: An Analysis on Strategic Partnership and Dynamics of Competition
Geoeconomics is a strategic concept in the international relations literature that refers to the pursuit of geopolitical objectives through economic
28 September 2025
Understanding the Rise of Nationalism in Saudi Arabia (I): The Decline of the Sahwa Movement
The 19th century marks a period that enabled many ideas to become mass movements and transform into political ideologies.
23 September 2025
In Memory of Yörük Ali Efe, One of the Symbols of Civil and National Resistance
Today marks exactly 74 years since September 23, 1951. For me, this date is not merely an anniversary of death;
22 September 2025
On the Verge of Losing the ‘Good’ and the ‘Beautiful’: Türkiye’s Ethical and Aesthetic Impasse
Can a society that has lost its ethics have an aesthetics? At the point we have reached, this question is
18 September 2025
Nationalization in Turkish Politics and Homo sapiens
If this greatest nationalization comes to pass, all the main “political” actors on the national stage, from the very top
15 September 2025
Post-Modern Labyrinth for the Turkish Individual: Changing Demographics, Shrinking Space and Echo Chambers
The contemporary world bears the traces of a period in which traditional sociological structures have unraveled, leaving the individual to
10 September 2025
Identity, Representation, and Integration Dynamics: An Analysis of a Political Proposal
A political party’s chair’s proposal that “the President should have two vice presidents, one Kurdish and the other Alevi” has
4 September 2025
The Gears of Social Dialectics, or Miniskirted Imam-Hatip Students
For some time now, the cultural hybridization and social dialectic (synthesis) taking place in Türkiye has been drawing my attention.
31 August 2025