Our faculty member Serhun AL will give a lecture at Sabanci University tomorrow.

İstanbul Üniversitesi Yönetim Kurulu'nun kararı HUKUKSUZDUR. Böyle bir karar alma yetkileri yoktur. Yetki, sadece İşletme Fakültesi Yönetim Kurulu’ndadır. Bu kararı alanların tarih ve adalet önünde hesap verecekleri günler yakındır. Adalete, hukuka ve demokrasiye susamış

Lafı eğip bükmeyelim.Şu an yaşamakta olduğumuz, hukukun araçsallaştırılarak demokraside halkın en temel hakkı olan seçme özgürlüğünün elinden alınma operasyonudur.Buna en üst perdeden karşı çıkmak da akademik namusumuza olan borcumuzdur.

If authoritarianism is contagious across the borders, so should be all forms of democratic resilience

“Come, come again, whoever you are”

The relationship between literary works and national self has always been intriguing. Lots of potential research venues for Kurdish Studies particularly. Here is an interesting example on the coverage of Kurdish national identity in Mehmed Uzun's novels: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Kürt Tarihi Dergisi'nin Kürt Tarihi Dergisi 49. sayısını 'Küresel Siyasette Kürtler' özel dosyası ile 2022 yılında hazırlamıştık. Jeopolitik tartışmaların daha da önem kazandığı bugünlerde ilgilenenler tekrar göz atabilirler. Sunuş yazısı için: kurttarihidergisi.com/editorden/sayi…

📣 Call for Applications For details and application: bit.ly/KSCapplication Organized by the Kurdish Studies Center in partnership with the University of St Andrews and Queen Margaret University, and funded by the British Academy, we are launching a new international

We are happy to host Wendy Pearlman in Izmir on the 28th. The talk will be open to public. İEÜ Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler

How has the authoritarian turn in many democracies affected higher education in those countries? CFP: #POLITICAL #SCIENCE & THE #UNIVERSITY Guest Editors: Anja Neundorf, Robert A. Pape, & Nicholas Tampio Deadline: August 1, 2025 More info here: buff.ly/3Wfo0Cq

Vol. 3, No. 1 of the Kurdish Studies Journal is out now! Thanks to all authors, reviewers, editors, translators, copy-editors, and typesetters who have made this possible!

✏️With Ahmet Erdi Öztürk, we briefly examine how non-Western powers draw on civilizational narratives rooted in their distinct historical and cultural traditions to redefine their place in global politics and articulate alternative frameworks of legitimacy and authority.

My short review of Latif Tas' Authoritarianism and Kurdish Alternative Politics: Governmentality, Gender and Justice published Kurdish Studies Journal brill.com/view/journals/…

Encyclopaedia of the Kurds has been officially launched and will be published by Brill. I'll be the editor responsible for the Political Science and IR section. More info here: brill.com/display/db/krdo

Eylül’de İzmir’e bekleriz…

#EWIS2025 has kicked off! Happy to announce İzmir University of Economics as #EWIS2026 location. With Umut Can Adısönmez (Programme co-chair) and Serhun Al (local host) EISA

#OpenAccess from govandopp - The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict - cup.org/4fiRPdk "...the increasing politicization and securitization of memory has started to underpin new strategies for political conflict..." - Aline Sierp #FirstView

I am giving a guest lecture at UCF in Orlando this week with a kind organization by Prof. Mehmet Gurses.