Publications

This book recasts seventeenth-century Ottoman advice literature as a contested political language in which competing visions of legitimacy, authority, and social order were articulated.

This article offers a Lacanian reinterpretation of the Cyprus conflict, examining how contested relations with Türkiye, Greece, and the West shape the formation and recognition of political subjectivity.

This article examines how Istanbul University, after the University Reform, used University Conferences to present science as a public mission and to position itself as an institutional actor in the intellectual life of the early Republic.

This article reads Nihal Atsız’s Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi as a project of national canon formation, showing how literary history transformed the pre-Islamic Turkic past into an aesthetic and political foundation for racialized Turkist-Turanist nationalism.

This chapter conceptualizes Turkey as a hybrid regional power: a multidimensional actor whose military, economic, and symbolic reach has expanded considerably, but whose aspirations remain constrained by domestic and regional vulnerabilities.

This chapter reads Hannah Arendt’s critique of the sovereign state as an account of the erosion of political freedom and moral responsibility through violence, obedience, and bureaucratic rule.

held at University of Potsdam in Potsdam on 5–9 September 2023.

held at Bilkent University in Ankara on 7–8 October 2023.

by Istanbul Medeniyet University and İstanbul University in Istanbul on 5–6 June 2023.