Tag: Ergun Babahan

Interview with Professor Hakan Yavuz on The Torn Republic: Turkey’s Search for Civilizational Identity (Oxford University Press, 2026)

Your book is organized around four major historical moments: the Early Republic, the Cold War, the Özal period, and Erdoğan’s neo-patrimonial era. How should readers understand the scope and ambition of this book? This book should be read as a major interpretive history of modern Turkey. In that sense, it enters into conversation with two classic works: Bernard Lewis’s The Emergence of Modern Turkey and...

A Head September 2, 2026

After UNIFIL: A New Watch Over Southern Lebanon

In Lebanon, the question of who possesses weapons is never merely a security issue. It is also a question of who governs, who protects the country, and who has the authority to decide between war and peace. This is why the approaching end of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, commonly known as UNIFIL, is generating an unusually sensitive debate. The issue is...

C Head August 28, 2026

Tag: Ergun Babahan

Interview with Professor Hakan Yavuz on The Torn Republic: Turkey’s Search for Civilizational Identity (Oxford University Press, 2026)

After UNIFIL: A New Watch Over Southern Lebanon

Fourth Week Of April : Öcalan Issues Warning and Demands on Peace Process

Third Week Of April: You can kill someone, but you cannot erase them

Second Week of April 2026 – Erdoğan Moves to Neutralize CHP Under Cover of Regional Tensions

First Week of April 2026: Erdoğan is suffocating CHP

Second Week of March 2026 – CHP in Silivri

First Week of March 2026 – İmamoğlu trial starts

Fourth Week of February 2026: Öcalan calls for democracy

3rd Week of February: Parliamentary Report, Legal Battles, and Economic Strain

1st Week of February 2026: “Right to Hope” talk, arrests in practice

The End of January 2026: Turkey Blocks Aid to Kobani

3rd Week of January: Turkey Chooses the Sri Lanka Model

2nd Week of January: Peace by Beating the Kurds