In African competitive authoritarianisms, peaceocracy, or the (supposed) reign of peace, ‎consists, for the incumbents, of instrumentalizing the narrative of safeguarding peace, ‎stability, and order ...

Simultaneous operations targeting the LGBTI+ movement: Digital blackout, home raids, searches of associations, and workplace raids

In a police raid targeting Kaos GL Association, members of the Board of Directors and Audit Board—including alternate members—were detained during home raids. Police also searched the association's of...

Rojava’s universities remain open, but can their revolutionary model thrive in Syria’s new political order? Sardar Saadi on Kurdish education and women’s leadership.

İsrail’in Batı Şeria’da sürdüğü yerleşimci, sömürgeci rejim Filistinli aileleri zorla yerinden etmeye zorluyor. Ailelerin yaşadığı şiddet her geçen gün daha çok artıyor. Batı Şeria’nın Al-Mughayyir kö...

My chapter in the I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World

Çerçeve Bülten'in çıkış hikâyesi ve Cumartesi günleri e-posta kutunuzda sizi nelerin beklediği üzerine.

Prehistoric archaeologist specialising in personal ornaments, identity, craft, and material culture in prehistoric Anatolia and the wider Mediterranean.

On May 11, Istanbul’s newly renovated Atatürk Cultural Center hosted the first World Decolonization Forum. The event was organized by a coalition of Turkish institutions such as the NÛN Foundation for...

For half a century, a house on the coast in southern Lebanon has kept vigil over Al-Mansouri beach and the blue Mediterranean waters beyond. Mona Khalil’s grandfather built the house in the 1970s, aro...

Despite bans imposed in Beyoğlu and Kadıköy, LGBTI+ people gathered for the 24th Istanbul Pride March and took to the streets chanting, “We are out, loud, and proud.” Police attacked the march and det...

Şebnem Oğuz examines late fascism as a contemporary mode of crisis management, distinct not only from neoliberal authoritarianism and right-wing populism but also from classical fascism. How does capi...

In this episode, israa’ and Leila are joined by two compas from The Peoples Want, Juls and Alaa, to talk about Revolutions of Our Times, an internationalist manifesto written by The Peoples Want. T…

Defne Güzel, Chair of the Board of the May 17 Association, was acquitted at the first hearing of the case in which she was tried on charges of “violating public morality”.

Abstract. Drawing on a range of regional expertise and perspectives from international relations, political economy, political theory, and sociology, this

Abdullah Öcalan'ın İmralı Sekreteryası'nda görev alan Zeki Bayhan ile konuştuk:  Rêber Apo sürecin önünü açmak için kimsenin düşünmeye bile cesaret

Some thoughts on how our complaint archives can help us in reading the Epstein files

How Israel’s war on Lebanon will haunt our world, and why Israeli impunity is creating monstrous realities that can engulf us all.

YouTube video by Eva Prodüksiyon

A group of academics and researchers from across the world has issued a statement of solidarity with universities in Rojava, also known as Northern and Eastern Syria, amid escalating violence and dete...