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The Gezi Park Protests and the Future of Turkish Politics: An Interview with Seyla Benhabib
National Neoliberalism in Turkey
18 jailed in new crackdown on İstanbul city officials after Erdoğan rival’s arrest
Serbia 2025: Vučić’s self-critical turn – a chance to overcome the current situation?
Erdoğan’s Looming Downfall
A Movement against Erdoğan Is Growing across Turkey
Turkey’s Rising Wave of Social Protests
Young people in Turkey are defying decades of oppression
Turkey’s LGBTI+ movement resists despite the odds
18 jailed in new crackdown on İstanbul city officials after Erdoğan rival’s arrest
Turkish authorities arrested 18 people on Wednesday, including officials from İstanbul's opposition-run municipality, more than a month after the city's...
18 detained in İstanbul over silent ‘standing man’ protest on Gezi anniversary
Turkish police detained 18 people on Wednesday evening in İstanbul's central Taksim Square during a silent “standing man” protest marking the anniversary of...
Serbia 2025: Vučić’s self-critical turn – a chance to overcome the current situation?
The International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly conducts analyses of events...
The Gezi Park Protests and the Future of Turkish Politics: An Interview with Seyla Benhabib
“This generation has shown itself and to some extent empowered itself through the Gezi Park protests; the question is whether it can...
National Neoliberalism in Turkey
[contentblock id=subscribe-ad. In the summer of 2013, Istanbul's Gezi Park became the site of a historic mobilization against the Justice and Development...
Erdoğan’s Looming Downfall
The year 2013 was supposed to be momentous for Turkey's strongman, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Having established himself as the single most...
Turkey’s LGBTI+ movement resists despite the odds
Istanbul celebrated its annual LGBTI+ Pride March in late June under the shadow of intense police repression, in line with Turkish...
A Movement against Erdoğan Is Growing across Turkey
Despite fierce repression and more than 1,000 arrests in less than a week, protests continue and are growing in scale following the arrest...
Turkey’s Rising Wave of Social Protests
This year's Istanbul election and last year's move to a presidential system have unified and galvanized the opposition, raising questions...
Young people in Turkey are defying decades of oppression
Mass youth protests have mobilised a fragmented society into action and enlivened the political opposition.