PS:EUROPE Political and Social Research Institute of Europe

This analysis basically concentrates on the case of Alevis in Turkey and offers a snapshot of the discrimination towards the community. European Union countries such as Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, which have migrant Alevi population, began to recognize Alevilik as a religious belief and to ensure equality in the public realm. However, the question turned into a vicious circle in ...

Recent studies on the spatial inequalities in the urban sphere in Turkey underscore increasing social injustice arising from urban regeneration projects and strives for participation of local people in the decision-making process of these projects. However, in comparison to extensive and comprehensive power of this new urbanism, ability to resist it looks hardly possible, if not unrealizable. I argue that ...