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Book Review: Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile by L. Yako
I have lately made a book review for Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching- a Scopus-indexed journal. Wars not only kill people in...

Free & Equal Internet Access as a Human Right
Frist published in Modern Diplomacy. Having internet access in a free and equal way is very important in contemporary world. Today, there...

TGS Akademi: News Reading in English Workshop
I have been involved in a workshop held by TGS Akademi. The News Reading in English Workshop. In our meeting held last week, we read and...

How does the media coverage of Bayraktar Drones affect Turkish foreign policy image?
According to Van Dijk, media discourse plays a critical role in the reproduction of ideologies. This article aims to focus on the media...

Critical Discourse Analysis Studies in Turkey
The 2nd Social Sciences Symposium organized by Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and OKU OKUT Akademi was held on 27-31 August 2022. The...

Early Career Research and Education Workshop has started!
Bodrum+ Institute cover politics, security, environment, climate, economy, and development, and it aims to serve the promotion of Bodrum...

ICCM2022, EDU2022 and RHUL – Kaplan Symposium
This week started in a crazy mode in terms of academic conferences :) The ICCM (7th Annual International Conference on Communication and...

Turkish Economy as the Reset Button of Turkish Politics
First published in Modern Diplomacy Democracy has a robust relationship with economic growth. Barrington Moore can be seen as one of the...

Citizen Diplomacy Research Group
Citizen Diplomacy Research Group (CDRG) August meeting was held on August 9, 2022. I ran into this group via social media and joined some...

Journalism in Turkey: Practices, Challenges, Opportunities
This short book review was first published in Middle East Monitor. The media plays a key role, and not only in liberal democratic...

An Analysis of Unending Prosecutions: The Crime of “Insulting President”
This article was first published in Daktilo1984. Introduction Freedom of expression and a free and independent judiciary mechanism are...

Quo Vadis Turkish Politics?
This article was originally published as a Perspective Paper for BESA Center. Turkey has never had a fully liberal democratic regime. The...

The May 27 Coup: An Attempt to Analyze Politics in Gramscian Terms
This article is available here: The May 27 Coup: An Attempt to Analyze Politics in Gramscian Terms - Modern Diplomacy On 27 May in 1960,...

THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF MEDIA, BUSINESS, AND POLITICS IN TURKEY
*Originally published in Modern Diplomacy, on the interplay between media, business, and politics in Turkey, and how this relationship...

Coronavirus, Hunger And The Crisis With Janus Face
This article was first published in The Companion. Almost all of us watch the striking dimensions of global waste in the news release....

Write More, Publish More, Stress Less!
Write More, Publish More, Stress Less! Five Key Principles for a Creative and Sustainable Scholarly Scholarly Practice is a book written...

Turkey’s Covid-19 Diplomacy as a Model for Soft Power
This article was first published on the web page of INTPOLSEC (Association of International Politics and Security Studies) Introduction...

Arts and Politics Debate in Turkey as New Space of Polarization
This piece has been published in UPA. Recent days in Turkey witness a rather bizarre debate about the song lyrics written by Turkish pop...

Tariq Khan made an interview with me for Debate IR
Tariq Khan from Islamabad made an interview with me about Turkey-EU relations. For the interview you can go to Youtube Below is a summary...