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Ali Agcakulu ─ author

Ali Agcakulu is the academic, author and columnist. After he graduated from the Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Yildiz Technical University in 2016, he worked as a Post-doctorate research fellow at The Catholic University of America. He published two books; “The Brief History of Kurdish Nationalism” and “Said Nursi’s Political Theory or The Reform of Islamic Political Thought”. As a journalist, he was a columnist with Rota Haber news website in 2015. He has many academic and semi-academic articles published in various magazines and newspaper. He worked as columnist in the Ahvalnews and Ocak Medya news websites. His expertise is on the history and philosophy of relationships between religion and politics in Turkey.

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Raison d’État of the Turks

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The Briefing of Turkey’s Order and/or the End of the Order

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Rethinking the Value of Turkey in NATO

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The US and Turkey relations: The returning of the Cold War 

The US and Turkey relations: The returning of the Cold War    While Joe Biden, as President, was in the White House, Turkey and US relations...

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