July 15 Revisited: Institutional Fragility, Public Defiance, and Political Leadership
On July 15, 2016, Turkey experienced an attempted military coup that seemed, by all conventional…
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Is Set to Lose Turkey’s Presidential Election
The Nation Alliance’s far-fetched election campaign is most likely to fail, and the latest nationalist…
“We Are Scared of Our Own Shadow”: An Interview with Raphael Liogier on Islamo-Paranoia in France
First thing we should do is to stop talking all the time about Islam. Because…
Middle Class Discontent Will Have Disruptive Consequences: An Interview with Lütfi Sunar
Slowing economic growth, cuts on living wages and narrowing opportunities for social mobility have led…
Media is the Message Now: An Interview with Dr. Hakkı Öcal on Foreign Media Outlets in Turkey
No harm can come from free communication. But we need to know, who is doing…
Art, Artists and Politics: No Limits for Transgression?
It is impossible to think of artists as beings without political thoughts but when they…
Turgut Cansever: In pursuit of wisdom through architecture
Turgut Cansever’s primary concern was to combine architecture with ethics that entailed a quintessential overlap…
How to Make an Ottoman Clock in the Twenty First Century, An Interview With Professor Lutfi Sunar
When a team at the Scientific Studies Association (İLEM) designed a clock with Ottoman features,…
When Ideology Overwhelms Reason: Messianic Aspects of Gülenism, An Interview with Professor Ahmet Yaşar Ocak
Gülen is a sincere believer in his mission. He claims that he communicates with the…
DAESH: Documenting a Modern Heresy, Interview with Belkıs Kılıçkaya
Faruk Yaslıçimen interviewed Belkıs Kılıçkaya, a distinguished Turkish journalist, about DAESH, on which she made a…
Investing in Turkey, Investors’ Perspective: Interview with Tarek O. Al-Kasabi
Faruk Yaslıçimen interviewed Tarek O. Al-Kasabi, a Saudi businessman, about his company’s investments in Turkey.
German Media and Turkey
Media is not a global vending machine, where you go and want something. If you…
Going Back to the Origins: Change and Continuity in Egyptian Society
Faruk Yaslıçimen interviewed with the director of the Yunus Emre Institute in Cairo and tried…
Diyanet Center of America: An Architectural Quest for Identity
A visitor of the Diyanet Center in Maryland notes that the mosque is already filled…
