During the first days of the Gezi Protests (on 30 May 2013), Memet Ali Alabora, who was one of the leading figures of protests, tweeted: “The problem is not only Gezi Park, my friend. Have you not realized it yet?” The pro-government media and the decision-makers of the country have used this tw..
Evren Altinkas
Evren Altinkas received postgraduate degrees from King’s College London and from Dokuz Eylul University in 2003. He obtained his doctoral degree from Dokuz Eylul University in 2011 based on his dissertation comparing the development of the concept of intellectuals in Europe and in Ottoman State/Turkey. Since July 2018, Altinkas has been employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Guelph. His research areas are the History of the Middle East, Social Media and Politics, Turkish History, Intellectual History and the Transformation from Ottoman Empire to Modern Middle East and Turkey. He received the Chevening Scholarship for the academic year of 1999-2000, and is a MESA Global Academy Fellow for the academic year 2020-2021. Altinkas is the newly appointed editor of H-TURK. Dr. Altinkas has several academic articles and book chapters published.