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 ...

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 fourth PS:EUROPE Brown Bag Seminar entitled “Right-wing Populism in the 21st Century: The Future of Globalization and Democracy” was held on November 27 at the Kadir Has University. The speakers of the seminar were Prof. Yüksel Taşkın and Assoc. Prof. Behlül Özkan, faculty members of Marmara University. After the speeches of speakers the seminar moderated by Edgar Şar, PS:EUROPE ...

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 ...