Zihni Özdil is a junior lecturer and PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He teaches courses on the history of the Middle East and North Africa. His PhD research focuses on the early secularization process in the Turkish Republic.
For many years, I have been criticizing Turkey’s AKP government because of its neoliberal economic policies as well as its disregard for human rights. In...
From the start, the Turkish government's plans to develop Gezi Park near Istanbul's central Taksim Square raised a number of concerns. Like all Prime...