The Political and Social Research Institute of Europe (PS: EUROPE) is an independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization which was founded in Vienna, Austria. PS: EUROPE focuses on policy analysis, academic research projects, and social policy recommendations. The objective of the organization is to create an academic and social platform which ensures the dialogue among independent researchers and civil society organizations ...

PS:EUROPE Institute, with the cooperation of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Turkey, has published its latest research report on the perception of asylum-seekers, immigrants and refugees in Turkey and the reasons behind it. The presentation of the report was held in July 2017, 27 with the participation of distinguished academics, civil society representatives and researchers. The project report in English has been ...

In this article I am going to compare the relation between immigration and security policies in Turkey and Germany. I will be looking at how the two states, a European and a non-European, and two distinct governments, an Islamic Conservative Democratic one and a National Conservative one, are reacting to immigration to their state-territory at a legislative level. In both ...

“Religion-Society-State Relations: Secularism and Democracy” seminar was organized with the partnership of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Turkey on March 26, 2017 with the participation of representatives of various political parties and non-governmental organizations in Malatya. The seminar was organized by Barış Yıldız and Seren Selvin Korkmaz as a project of Youth Program of Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The Director of PS:EUROPE Turkey Office Seren ...

PS:EUROPE organised Academic Writing Workshop on 11 March 2017 at Kadir Has University. The event aimed to introduce efficient and organised ways of writing academic articles for people who are involved in social sciences, and it was mentored by Seren Selvin Korkmaz (Director General of Turkey), Edgar Şar and Alphan Telek (the Directors of Academic Affairs). We thank our participants ...

We Should Listen to the Master Yoda: Hate Leads to Suffering The construction of “enemy image” is the most salient component within the political scene. Political actors or citizens employ their own perceptions within the politics in order to emphasize the division of “us and them” in particular sentiments. Strong and competent leaders (mostly presidents) respond to these grievances if ...

The first session of PS:EUROPE Tea Talks was held on February 23, 2017 with the participation of distinguished academics and young social scientists in Turkey. The members of our Advisory Council Aslı Silahdaroğlu Bekmen, Prof. Mine Eder, Assoc. Prof. Ayşen Candaş, Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Gambetti, Assist. Prof. Volkan Çıdam, as well as Prof. Fulya Atacan, Prof. Yüksel Taşkın, Prof. Gencer ...

The fifth PS:EUROPE Brown Bag Seminar entitled “Rethinking the Future of Globalization and Liberalism” was held on January 15, 2017 at Kadir Has University. The seminar began with the Seren Selvin Korkmaz’s opening speech, the director of PS:EUROPE Turkey Office. The seminar moderated by Aslı Silahdaroğlu Bekmen, PS:EUROPE Advisory Board member, took place with the participation of Assoc. Dr. Evren ...

The last decade of the neoliberal era, with its destructive economic policies created broad and deep social and spatial inequalities. In recent years, people from different cities around the world raised their voices against the neoliberal attack on public spaces that showed itself as state-led privatization and commodification of the daily life. The voices grew into urban social movements, as ...

Competitive authoritarianism is a hybrid form of regime which combines “a democratic access to power” with the “authoritarian exercise of power.”[1] In this sense, the main feature of electoral/competitive authoritarianism is its relation to democratic institutions that are viewed as the principal means of exercising political authority.[2] Democratic institutions can be used to contest for power, but these regimes lack ...