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Border as "Zone of Indistinction": The State of Exception and the Spectacle of Terror Along Turkey's Border With Syria
(Sage Publications Inc, 2018)
Turkey's border with Syria today is a laboratory in which biopolitics and the spectacle coincide in new ways. As a consequence of the ongoing war between the state and Kurdish insurgents, and the state of emergency ...
Understanding the Images of Alan Kurdi With "Small Data": A Qualitative, Comparative Analysis of Tweets About Refugees in Turkey and Flanders (Belgium)
(USC Annenberg Press, 2017)
One of the peak moments of the debate on the European refugee crisis was caused by the circulation of images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean Sea on September 2, 2015. The images triggered ...
You Are What You Wear: Clothing/Appearance Laws and the Construction of the Public Citizen in Turkey
(Berg Publ, 2010)
As Turkey set its sights on modernization and Westernization in the early decades of the twentieth century, clothing reform took center stage. The state used clothing as a constitutive element in its establishment and ...
How do women receive inheritance? The processes of Turkish women’s inclusion and exclusion from property
(Research Institute of Asian Women, 2013)
This article employs Turkey as a case study to explore the relationship between property ownership, inheritance, and women’s empowerment. In Turkey, as in much of the world, men dominate ownership of property. This is ...
Turkish-Russian relations in search of a way out of the rivalry-competition dilemma(Article) [Rekabet ve ışbirliği ıkileminde yönünü arayan Türk-Rus ılişkileri]
(Ahmet Yesevi University, 2015)
Cooperation and strategic partnerships are the main concepts utilized in defining current Turkish-Russian relations. This new discourse indicates a fundamental transformation in bilateral relations and the removal of ...
Will peace flourish in the end? The history of suffering: Terrorism in Turkey
(2013)
For the past 30 years, the PKK has launched a campaign of terror in Turkey. Despite the rise and fall of attacks throughout the years, the PKK's terrorist activities have never completely ended. Through the recent initiative ...
Framing the Russian aircraft crisis: News discourse in Turkey’s polarized media environment
(Forsnet, 2018)
This article analyzes the way in which the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish F-16 jet on 24 November 2015 was framed by pro-government (Türkiye, Yeni Akit, Yeni Şafak) and anti-government (Cumhuriyet) newspapers. ...