Shadow Conflicts in the Aegean Analysis While the world's attention is focused on the war in Ukraine, the next conflict at the EU's external border is already brewing in the eastern Aegean. Often overlooked: the tensions between Greece and Turkey are neither new, nor politically irrational. Seçkin Söylemez
Immigration Politics: Refugees in Turkey and the 2023 Elections Article In order for Turkey to overcome its refugee crisis, elites need to accept the country’s new reality, change their rhetoric, and devise integration policies that foster social harmony and protect Turkey’s new residents. Merve Tahiroğlu
Understanding youth protests and activism in India’s northeast Conversation India’s northeast has had a chequered history of youth movements and has been home to some of the recent strong pro-democracy movements in the country. Being young in India’s northeast necessitates acts of social interventions of various kinds. In this conversation, Dr. Kaustubh Deka and Dr. Soibam Haripriya reflect on the locality of youth movements and the long history of the culture of protest in the region, as well as its larger resonance. Dr. Kaustubh Deka, Dr. Soibam Haripriya
How LGBT+ individuals were criminalized with the withdrawal of the Istanbul Convention? Sibel Yükler's article on the process before the withdrawal of the Istanbul Convention and how LGBTI+s were systematically criminalized... Sibel Yükler
The Bogazici Resistance: The Matter Circles Back to Queers (Mevzu Lubunya’ya)! What happened since January 2, 2021 at Boğaziçi University, one of Turkey’s most prominent university, in which students exercised plurality... Umut Rojda Yıldırım
World Refugee Day 2022 – Flight across the Aegean… History repeating itself Commentary Some 100 million people are currently forcibly displaced worldwide. This year's World Refugee Day therefore, once again, marks a sad record: never before have there been so many refugees as this year, according to UNHCR figures. The brutal war of aggression against Ukraine has played a part in that. Neda Noraie-Kia
A Step-by-Step Account of the Istanbul Pride: A Rebellion’ Brief History A rebellion against the system designed to induce shame, a rebellion against violence, hate murders, exiles, and a rebellion against all odds! The History of the Pride March in Turkey... Yıldız Tar