Thanks to Seren Selvin Korkmaz Burak Bilgehan Özpek Prof. Dr. İlhan Uzgel Nil Satana Bilge Yabanci—Peace and Justice for Palestine 🇵🇸 Dr. M. Murat Kubilay Dr. Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir and @heissenstat for taking part in this. We will release a new paper every week.

The New Civil-Military Relations in Turkey | In the next essay in our series, Nil Satana looks at the AKP's long-term campaign to limit the military’s role & how the 2016 coup attempt paved the way for the rise of a personalistic regime. Middle East Institute mei.edu/publications/n…

"While civilian control of the military is compulsory for democracies, the AKP has come to use the Turkish military as its private army to support a personalistic regime. Only an opposition victory in 2023 is likely to alter this reality." - Nil Satana mei.edu/publications/n…

Have you read my book with Johanna K Birnir yet?

I’ve been away from teaching for a while despite continuing my research. I want to share the reason now that I have a diagnosis and management plan. EDS affects so many people and patients are gaslit by the medical community due to invisibility of the symptoms. Be aware and kind!

EDS is a complex condition that either never gets diagnosed or it takes decades to diagnose, as in my case. If you have unexplained musculoskeletal pain, GI issues, severe allergies, find a doctor who doesn’t stop searching for answers. The Ehlers-Danlos Society has very helpful sources.

Cambridge’in yayimladigi kitabimizda Turkiye, Uganda, Nepal ve Pakistan vaka analizlerimiz etnik azinliklarin hangi durumlarda dini kimligi cogunluklara karsi avantaj elde edebilmek icin kullandigini inceliyor.

Saha calismasi ile kuvvetlendirdigimiz Endonezya bolumumuz ise ayni faktorlerin ne zaman ic catisma yerine bariscil koalisyonlara yol verdigini anlatiyor.

Kitapta oyun kurami kullanarak gelistirdigimiz teorimiz ve topladigimiz veri tabani ile test ettigimiz hipotezlerimiz, coklu yontem kullanarak nasil daha iyi sosyal bilim yapabilecegimize bir ornek. UİK dergisinde 2015’te bastigim bir makalede bunu anlatmaya calismistim

“Turkish Views: Crisis and Opportunities for Turkey in 2023.” You can read the essays in this series here 👇 by Seren Selvin Korkmaz, Bilge Yabanci—Peace and Justice for Palestine 🇵🇸, Burak Bilgehan Özpek, Dr. M. Murat Kubilay, Nil Satana, Dr. Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir & more. ⁦Middle East Institute⁩ mei.edu/publications/t…

All 7 papers in our Turkey series are out now. Check out the full series here, including essays from Seren Selvin Korkmaz, Bilge Yabanci—Peace and Justice for Palestine 🇵🇸, Burak Bilgehan Özpek, Dr. M. Murat Kubilay, Nil Satana, Dr. Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir & Prof. Dr. İlhan Uzgel. Middle East Institute mei.edu/publications/t…

2020’de Burak Bilgehan Özpek ile yazdigimiz OUP makalesinden bu yana Turkiye’nin meseleleri sivil-ordu iliskileri ve demokrasi acisindan daha da elzem hale geldi. MEI icin yazdigim makalede ozellikle aradaki gelismeleri ele aldim.

Brezilya ile Türkiye, PT ile AKP, Lula ile Erdoğan karşılaştırılır mı? Karşılaştırılır. Bu, vakalar tıpatıp aynı demek değildir. Karşılaştırma benzerlik & farklılılar üzerinden nedensellik arayan bir metoddur. Karşılaştırılmaz diyenler ya metoda ya da vakalara hakim değildir. 🧵

Amazing use of twitter for a mini presentation on a fascinating IR question!

Eartquake in Turkey. Hoping international aid comes fast. Hundreds are trapped under collapsed buildings.

AKP Sözcüsü Ömer Çelik: “Cumhur İttifakı olarak hepimiz sahadayız. Hepimiz üzerimize düşeni yapmaya çalışıyoruz. Cumhur İttifakı’nın teşkilatları sahadadır.”

Of course the AKP spokesperson is politicizing the death of thousands of citizens while we’re terrified, worrying about our loved ones in the southeast.

scholarships for those impacted by the earthquake, organized by the METU / ODTÜ alumni branch in Canada

The Challenger’s Winning Coalition: Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War | The Journal of Politics journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… Our JoP article is finally out after the CUP book. So nice to see them both out there 😊

The Challenger’s Winning Coalition: Mobilization of Religion in Ethnic Civil War | The Journal of Politics journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… Dinin etnik catismalarda nasil kullanildigini tartistigimiz calismamiz Journal of Politics dergisinde yayinlandi!