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Özge Yaka, Fighting for the River: Gender, Body and Agency in Environmental Struggles (University of California Press, 2023).

The main focus of my current research revolves around the intersection of authoritarianism, human rights, and freedom of expression, particularly in Turkey. Specifically, I am investigating how legal frameworks, such as Turkey’s infamous Article 299—which crimi..

We are together experiencing a catastrophic unfolding of history as Gaza awaits a massive invasion of potentially genocidal proportions. This follows an incessant bombardment of a population increasingly bereft of the necessities of living in response to the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7. ..

On 8 January 2009, while reading the daily news from local media in Turkey’s Kurdistan, I was astounded by a brief clip from Antep. None of it seemed to make sense. It reported that three days earlier, on 5 January, Turkish security forces in Gaziantep had stop..

Between 2015 and 2016, as I was completing my previous book, Media in New Turkey, I observed a significant uptick in the Erdoğan government’s external communication efforts. The government launched TRT World to reach English-speaking audiences around the world and to ..

My motivation to write this book was both intellectual and political. The book is a trans-feminist research piece. That is, feminist research informed by trans politics and centering on trans perspectives, experiences, and stories. It is a product of my decades..

We, the faculty at Boğaziçi University, condemn the oppressive measures adopted by university administrations across the US against peaceful pro-Palestinian and anti-war protests held by students and faculty members on campuses. We observe, with regret and concern, that in many universities the ..

Like most first books, this book grew out of my dissertation. Initially, I was drawn to the proliferation of charitable advertisements, campaigns, and slogans in the Turkish public sphere. The rise of organized, professional forms of charity—popular among both ..