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In March 2021, in the parliament of the liberal democracy where I live, namely the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson’s conservative government proposed a new law titled “The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill” to reform the criminal justice system. Numbering 314 mighty pages, the bill is a co..

The idea for this book first came to me in 2003, when I became involved in New York City and Istanbul—and then in Brussels, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Paris, Mumbai, Athens and elsewhere—with the global antiwar movement mobilizing against the war the United States, the United..

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen,” Vladimir Lenin once said. Turkey is going through some of those weeks. Given the failed coup d’état on 15 July 2016, and the state of emergency declared on 20 July, not much is how it appears.

What may eve..

Bu Ulvi Mücadelemizde: Mısır`dan sonra, Türkiye ve Terör üzerine 

Başbakan Erdoğan’ın Türkiye’deki hükümeti ile Mısır’daki General Sisi hükümetinin arasındaki ortak nokta ne? Cevap “hiçbir şey” olamaz—en azından, on yıllık uzun görev süresi boyunca Erdoğan ik..

What does Prime Minister Erdoğan’s government in Turkey have in common with General Sisi’s in Egypt? “Nothing” cannot be the answer—at least not for those who have dared to confront the legal, liberal, and lethal force of Erdoğan’s rule during a long decade of tenure.

This is why on 17 Aug..

Ayça Çubukçu, “The Responsibility to Protect: Libya and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity,” Humanitarianism and Responsibility, special issue of Journa..

Reading the press release issued by the Turkish Armed Forces on Thursday, 29 December 2011, it is impossible to get the sense that during the previous night, its warplanes

Ayça Çubukçu, “On Cosmopolitan Occupations: The Case of the World Tribunal on Iraq,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 13.3 (2011): 422-442.

Jadaliyya: W..

Libyans are begging

I am writing on 27 February 2011, when there are calls for the international community to intervene, if necessary with violence, into Libyan affairs. Most recently, and “in a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage US intervention in the Balkans and ..