Turkey’s modern republican history is fraught with periodic political, economic, cultural and intellectual crises. An heir of a once sprawling and powerful empire, the country has been a scene of competing and often diametrically opposite ideas and visions of its identity, its place
On June 7, 2015, Turkish constituents will be visiting the ballot box to elect a new leader. The Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has won seven consecutive elections (three general, three local and one Presidential) in the past 13 years, is once
While Kurdish leaders carefully distance themselves from the attempted coup, Erdogan is now even less likely to compromise or grant political rights to the Kurdish community. While the entire world was trying to make sense of the military coup attempt in Turkey on