A seventy-year-old monumental cultural center at the heart of Istanbul is being torn down while a new mosque is hastily being erected directly across from it. The president of Turkey celebrated the bulldozing of the emblematic structure with a cry addressing his imagined archenemy, ..
N. Ekrem Düzen
Dr. N. Ekrem Düzen is Philipp Schwartz Fellow at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University, Germany. He is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist by training. He works primarily on social and political youth participation, child and adolescent development, psycho-cultural aspects of self and identity formation. He is currently working on everyday reproduction of discrimination, othering, and exclusion.