Search Results For “ and+Turkey ” 10 articles

MEIS Presents a Panel on Turkey: Populism and Turkey: Domestic and Foreign Dimensions with Professor Evren Altinkas and Professor Nihat Celik.

This is the first of three bouquets of articles on the topic "gender" and jounral articles from 2017 and 2018 in the field of Middle East studies. This bouquet will be followed another on “Islamist Rebels and Women,” and a third on “Masculinities and the Middle East.” Interestingly, in researchi..

As many as 128 people died in Turkey Saturday when nearly simultaneous explosions ripped through a pro-peace rally in the country’s capital of Ankara. More than 245 people were injured. The bombs went off just as Kurdish groups, trade unions and leftist organizations were preparing to begin a ma..

Media coverage of Iraq in recent years has been dominated by the horrifying images of the American occupation, its impacts, and its aftermath. Sometimes lost among the political turmoil are the stories of how daily life continues and persists and how it is affected by the issues of the day.

In mid-July 2013, the Kurdish majority areas in Syria became embroiled in fierce fighting between the People’s Defence Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel [YPG], the Kurdish military forces) and an array of armed opposition groups.[1] While other regions of Syria—notably Homs—had descended into..

Many stakeholders inside and outside Turkey are waiting for the 2013 European Union (EU) progress report on the country, which is scheduled to be released on 16 October. According to the

[Part one of this article can be found here.]

Brand Turkey: Modeling Democracy and Neoliberalism

When commentators for CNN International, the

Neoliberalism, Illegality, and State of Exception in Turkey

The Gezi Park protests, and the state response to them, have crystallized larger dynamics in Turkey. These include recent legal changes and their contribution to the institutionalization of neoliberalism, c..

Myriam Ababsa, Baudouin Dupret and Eric Denis, editors. Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East: Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey<..

Turkey and Iran are two of the Middle East’s oldest and most powerful states, and both aspire to play a greater role in a new regional order. Major geopolitical developments in the Middle East—the rise of Kurdish nationalism, the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the expansion of Israeli s..