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Opposing by Court Order: Absolute Nullity and the CHP Crisis
Who determines the leadership of a main opposition party, delegates or courts? The ruling of absolute nullity against the CHP gives concrete form in Turkey to the thesis that democracies are eroded not by tanks but by tools that look legal.
The Silence of the Centre, the Noise of the Margins
As voices rise in politics, meaning narrows. While the extremes multiply, the centre first shortens its sentences, then lowers its voice. Could conciliatory leadership be the way to rebuild the bridges being dismantled?
We Didn’t Become American, We Became European
After the school attack in Kahramanmaraş, people spoke of “Americanisation”. Yet similar tragedies have happened in Europe too, from Finland to Austria; the common mechanism is often a licensed gun at home.
Who Is Closing the Kahramanmaraş File?
After the school attack in Kahramanmaraş, the state acted fastest in the digital sphere: thousands of access blocks, detentions, a broadcast ban. But the question of which information was silenced and which was allowed to circulate remains unanswered.
The Father’s Guns and Teacher Ayla Kara
After the Kahramanmaraş attack, the debate shifted to video games and social media. Yet the first question is this: how did five pistols in a police chief inspector’s home end up in the hands of a 14-year-old?
Politics: The Art of Fleecing the People, or the Test of Bearing a Trust?
“Politics is the art of fleecing the people” is a crude saying, but it captures a truth: instead of denying reality, modern politics packages part of it and leaves the rest in the dark. On the trinity of good news, patience and foreign powers.
The Shadow of Justice, the Appetite of Power
Plato’s Republic and Nizam al-Mulk’s Siyasatnama ask the same question: How long can order survive without justice? Power that grows through extraordinary powers does not strengthen the state; it inflates it like a balloon ready to burst.
Why Is the Far Right Rising in Germany?
How does the far right rise in a modern, prosperous and democratic country? Economic anxiety, the resentment of the East, the migration debate, the pandemic and the energy shock are all intertwined.
Mizrahi Identity and Its Influence on Israeli Politics
Israeli politics is usually discussed along the axes of right and left, religious and secular; yet there is a third axis that deeply affects security policy: the social and political weight of Mizrahi Jews.
From Ruins to the Top: Lessons from History for Turkey
Germany and Japan emerged from the war in ruins and within a few decades joined the world’s largest economies. Why has Turkey, which has not experienced a major war on its own soil for a hundred years, not made the same leap?
From Disorder to Democracy: The Power of Resistance against the Autocratic Rise
The world has more autocratic leaders, stronger right-wing parties and more polarised societies. The uncertainty created by crises feeds the search for a “strong leader”; the antidote is access to accurate information.
The Issue Is Not the Lieutenants but Militarism
Behind the debate over the lieutenants lies a deeper issue: the militarism Turkey has carried since the late Ottoman period. A reading that stretches from the birth of the idea of the nation in arms to the coups.
