Cengiz Aktar 13 November 2018
Why did political Islam fail? And why did political Islam in Turkey, which started as a rising star turno into a political monster?
Interview with Cengiz Aktar.
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- Luca Steinmann 30 October 2018Nilüfer Göle, is a well-known Turkish sociologist based in Paris. In the last 30 years she has been dealing with the development of the Islamic religion in Europe. Her studies are mainly concentrated on the disputes about the presence of islam in the European public space.
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- 20 February 2018The first aggravated life sentences for journalists since the failed coup of July 15, 2016 have been handed down in Turkey.
- Cristoforo Spinella 7 February 2018Before embarking on his European ‘renaissance tour’ Erdoğan had expressed his doctrine rather clearly, stating that, “we must reduce the number of our enemies and increase that of our friends.”
- 18 December 2017When in 1990 Turkish sculptor Metin Yurdanur was asked to design and carve a monument in honour of Human Rights to be placed in central Ankara, it was probably impossible to predict that the bronze statue of a girl sitting on a chair reading the declaration of Human Rights, sculpted by the Turkish artist, would have been one day “imprisoned”
- Cristoforo Spinella 6 November 2017When Melih Gökcek was mayor of the Turkish capital of Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appeared on the national stage as Istanbul’s highest ranking official. It was 1994 and victory in the nation’s two most important cities achieved by representatives of political Islam, marked a turning point in the balance of power in a country still largely in the hands of secular elites and governed by the army.
