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Özgür Özel: (LeMan Dergisi) Gazze'de bombardıman altında hayatını kaybetmiş, kanatlar takılmış bir melek görüyorum, bir başka öldürülmüş melekle karşılaşıyor, gökyüzünde tanışıyorlar "Selamın Aleyküm ben Muhammet' diyor. Bunu Hz. Muhammed'i resmetmişler olarak söylüyorlar,

Credit to the main opposition’s new leader, Özgür Özel . He’s battling not just an autocrat bent on crushing elected mayors and dissenters with state power, but also a 76-year-old ex-chair plotting to oust him and split the party. More power to him.

Tam da aradığım analizi bugün Foreign Policy dergisi yayınlamış. Trump’ın İran politikasını saldırganlık, duygusal kontrol eksikliği ve dürtüselliğin belirlediği hipermaskülenlik üzerinden okuyan bir yazı. Obama ya da Biden dönemi dış politikasını okurken işimize yaramayacak bu

In the latest Rethinking Democracy episode, I sat down with Steven Heydemann and Radwan Ziadeh رضوان زيادة to unpack Syria’s thorny path to transitional justice, democratic reform, and the rise of its new de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharah. Can a centralized state truly deliver inclusive

Transatlantik: Trump ve Musk kavgasında son durum | New York'a Müslüman ve sosyalist bir belediye başkanı mı geliyor? ⁦Gönül Tol⁩ ⁦Omer Taspinar⁩ medyascope.tv/2025/07/02/new…

Our new article is out! 📰 In Journal of Democracy Turkey’s opposition pulled off stunning victories in 2024 local elections, flipping longtime AKP strongholds across the conservative heartland. Based on fieldwork in 6 pivotal districts, our new piece shows how strategic localism,

Before Turkey’s 2023 elections, folks on the ground and experts on hybrid regimes thought the anti-Erdoğan bloc could pull off a win. They didn’t. But a year later, the opposition crushed it in local races. What changed? This great piece digs into the local strategies—which

What does a post-Assad Syria look like? Gönül Tol speaks with Syria experts Steven Heydemann and Radwan Ziadeh رضوان زيادة about the country's uncertain path forward: transitional justice, democratic reform, and the role of Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharah. mei.edu/multimedia/pod…

I also reject the idea that Israel is now the region’s hegemon—but for a different reason. Even the U.S. never fully achieved hegemony in the Middle East after the Cold War, because true hegemony demands more than sheer power—it requires legitimacy and unifying ideas that can

Batı medyasında, İran’a son saldırısının ardından İsrail’i bölgesel hegemon olarak gören pek çok analiz yayınlanıyor. Ben bu görüşe katılmıyorum. Çünkü hegemonya sadece materyal/askeri güce dayanarak elde edilmez. Aynı zamanda rızaya ve meşruiyete de dayanmak zorundadır. Bu

Turkey’s arrest spree is so relentless, keeping up with domestic politics these days feels more like reading the daily court docket. Today alone, dozens of opposition mayors and their staff were arrested, a university student was detained for tearing up his diploma in protest

And the arrest spree continues this morning with mayors of three major cities detained. Erdogan regime has vowed to destroy the opposition and the remains of Turkish democracy.

Turkey’s main opposition CHP scored a historic win in the 2024 local elections, seizing all major cities despite Erdoğan wielding state power, loyal courts, and a captured media. Now, Erdoğan is clawing those municipalities back through court rulings and jailing CHP mayors. CHP

I wrote this piece for Foreign Affairs soon after Erdoğan jailed his top rival, Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu. I argued that this blatant act of political repression marked a major shift toward Russian-style autocracy in Turkey. Since then, the crackdown and imprisonment of

Elon Musk yeni bir siyasi parti kurduğunu duyurdu. Musk parasal gücüyle siyasette sarsıcı bir etki yaratabilir, özellikle kritik seçim bölgelerinde oy dengelerini değiştirebilir. Ancak eyalet eyalet örgütlenmiş, güçlü ve kalıcı bir üçüncü parti kurması kısa veya orta vadede