For decades after the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish state
promoted the idea of a desired citizen. The Kemalist state treated these citizens as superior …

Drawing on the extant literature on populism, we aim to flesh out how populists in power
utilize religion and related state resources in setting up aggressive, multidimensional …

Given its duration and intensity, the decades-old civil war in Turkey between the Turkish
state and the PKK has resulted in relatively low levels of lethal inter-communal conflict …

Turkey plunges headlong into democratic backsliding under Erdoğan's presidency. The
country was a forerunner in the decline of democratic standards in a decade from 2010 to …

For almost sixteen years now, politics in Turkey have been analysed with reference to the
theme of victimhood. It is true that the political discourse of Turkey's Justice and …

This book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the
hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppression and conflict, Kurds …

Rather than addressing the Kurdish conflict in Turkey directly, this study focuses on how the
rising nationalist populism bears on Kurdish voters supporting the pro‐Kurdish party HDP …

Authoritarian leaders try to create an environment conducive to the maintenance of their own
ontological security. In this study, we advance a theory of tripartite securitization marked by …

Despite the growing literature that adapts the Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben's theory of
sovereignty to the analysis of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) increasing …

This paper provides an explanation for how the PKK, Kurdish Hezbollah, and ISIS,
representing distinct ethno-nationalist, Islamist and ideologically motivated political …