Author
Zafer Yörük

Zafer Yörük

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Who is Zafer Yörük?

Zafer Yörük (PhD and MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, University of Essex; BA in Politics and Economics, SOAS, University of London) has been a faculty member in the department of politics and communication studies of several universities in the UK, Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon. He is the author and co-author of a number of academic publications on the politics of Turkey and the Middle East. His main areas of research include identity politics, discourse analysis and psychoanalysis with reference to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, and the politics of Turkey and the Middle East.

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June 17, 2020 Mafia wars in Turkey in the time of corona
May 10, 2020 Big Diyanet is watching you!
April 22, 2020 Children's Day in Turkey: Kulturkampf and denial *
April 04, 2020 The bright post-pandemic vision of President Erdoğan
March 30, 2020 Menderes again prompts animated discussion
March 21, 2020 Newroz: Turkish névrose
March 14, 2020 The OdaTV affair: Hidden headlines
March 06, 2020 Operation Idlib: the ethno-religious ideological dimension
February 29, 2020 Confessions of a former political Islamist irk “all the President’s men”
February 22, 2020 SADAT: the horsemen of the apocalypse?
February 14, 2020 İlker Başbuğ: political weathervane?
February 07, 2020 Death then silence
January 31, 2020 Rahşan Ecevit: the Eva Peron of Turkish national-socialism
January 25, 2020 Hrant Dink murder: two trials and “The Cut”
January 17, 2020 Erdoğan and Putin: Friends for life?
January 04, 2020 Mehmet Ağar: The deep voice of the state
December 27, 2019 Turkey's political prisoners: the case of Osman Kavala
December 20, 2019 Turkey’s Eurasianist shift: bluff or strategic turn?
December 13, 2019 Davutoğlu: Great expectations and doomed reputation
December 07, 2019 Alevis: “Turkish history X”
November 29, 2019 The death of a general “in his labyrinth”