Ali Agcakulu

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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What About Iran’s Proxy Forces in Turkey?

What About Iran’s Proxy Forces in Turkey? Before the Iranian “mullah regime” collapses, it has already built a serious infrastructure inside Turkey—under Erdoğan’s protection—to reproduce...
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Trump Brought Erdoğan Back to the NATO Axis

As a historian, I can say that after the so-called coup attempt of July 15, 2016, President Trump undertook a move to end the...
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The Halki Seminary and Religious Freedom in Turkey

The Rising Influence of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Along with its status and mission, the institution referred to in Turkey’s official discourse as the “Fener Greek...
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Turkey’s Return to Confiscation

Turkey’s Return to Confiscation: A Historical Perspective on the New Law Granting Expanded Seizure Powers On January 30, 2025, Turkey’s Grand National Assembly (TBMM) passed...
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What Really Happened on July 15? Revisiting the So-Called Coup Nine Years Later

Turkey has a rich history of military coups. The most recent one, the July 15 so-called coup attempt, seems to be a synthesis of...
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Turkey’s Political Crisis Is a Crisis of the Regime

On March 19, 2025, the arrest of Istanbul Mayor and opposition presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu reignited a political crisis that has been smoldering for...
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Fast Thinking

The War for Hegemony

Israel attacked Iran in an attempt to preserve the hegemony it had established over the West. Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s growing dominance began...
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Raison d’État of the Turks

Following recent developments, the concept of “state reason” (devlet aklı), once again brought to the fore by Mümtaz’er Türköne, has reignited debate. The question...
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Constructing the Relationship Between Religion and the State in Turkey (I) 

In Turkey, the mission of safeguarding the authoritarian regime has been assigned to two institutions that appear to be in competition with one another...
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Fast Thinking

The New Pope and the New World Order

We can say that secularism entered political life as a world order alongside the Enlightenment. European history has offered the world four distinct models...
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Democracy

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

The global order established after the fall of the Berlin Wall has long passed its expiration date. Far from addressing new crises, the current...
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The Türkiye-Israel Confrontation in the Shadow of Antisemitism

On April 8, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office and made a striking public appeal:...
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