Please join the Harriman Institute and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights for a talk with David L. Phillips celebrating the launch of his new book, An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan’s Dictatorship (Transaction Publishers, February 2017). Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has become Islamist, anti-American, and undemocratic. More journalists are jailed in Turkey than any other country. Turkey…
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A talk by David Gutman.
In an extraordinary attack on press freedom in Turkey, investigative journalist Ahmet Sik was arrested on December 30, 2016 and charged with disseminating “terrorist propaganda.” The charges relate to his news pieces and articles as well as his Tweets. Ahmet Sik is among 144 journalists who are currently in jail in Turkey. This press conference, organized by Research Institute on…
A talk with Begüm Adalet. This talk proposes that we consider modernization theory as a transnational practice, one that was not simply developed by American intellectuals, but was instead produced through specific and often uncertain encounters across multiple sites of contestation. As one of the first beneficiaries of Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan funds, Turkey was an important venue in…