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Image of the divided and abandoned city of Varosha, Cyprus
May 10, 2021

Finding “Common Ground” in Cyprus

Unsurprisingly, informal peace talks “to determine whether common ground exists for [a] lasting solution to the Cyprus problem” fell short earlier this month. The UN-led 5+1 conference, attended by the leaders of Northern and Southern Cyprus as well as the foreign ministers of the “guarantors” of Greece, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, resulted in nothing […]

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Child holds sign telling Melbourne, Australia to "vote to care about refugees"
January 13, 2021

Representing Refugee Voices in Turkish Media

Just before the local elections in March 2019, İlay Aksoy, a founder of the nationalist İyi Party and mayoral candidate for Istanbul’s Fatih Municipality, displayed campaign banners reading, “We will not concede Fatih to the Syrians” throughout the busiest points of the district. Her subsequent campaign speeches, rallies, and social media posts came to employ […]

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July 30, 2020

Hagia Sophia: Caught between Conflict and Cooperation

The Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey as its successor have long occupied the geographic and imagined juncture of east and west, Europe and the Middle East, Occident and Orient. Nonetheless, the overly simplistic east/west binary unnecessarily limits the discursive space to explore the commonality of European and Turkish political and cultural trajectories. The […]

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May 27, 2020

The Case for Women-led, Grassroots Organizations in Emergency Response

Lessons from the Ebola Outbreak Previous responses to public health crises such as the Ebola outbreak of 2014-16 have highlighted the importance of gender dynamics in designing communication and intervention strategies. Because such outbreaks exert unequal impacts across gender and socio-economic strata, it is critical for emergency response interventions to consult women-led, grassroots-level, civil society […]

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May 5, 2020

The Shooting of Ali El Hemdan: Precarity and Anxiety for Turkey’s Refugees

Last week’s lethal shooting of 18-year-old Syrian refugee Ali El Hemdan could work to demoralize Turkey’s 3.6 million Syrian refugees as they grapple with increased hardship amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On the afternoon of April 27, Hemdan was shot and killed by a police officer after allegedly failing to stop for violating Turkey’s nationwide stay-at-home […]

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April 16, 2020

How To Build Trust During a Pandemic

Drawing lessons from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak In a virtual event on Coronavirus and Conflict hosted by the United States Institute of Peace, Jeremy Konyndyk, Senior Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development, talked about the importance of “building trust” during crisis response. He drew an example from the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the […]

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December 2, 2019

A Decade of Protest

  The 2010s are coming to end with a coda of protest.  It is perhaps appropriate that a decade that began with the Arab Spring ends this way – what began as hope morphed into tragedy and betrayal only to end in renewed promise.  Be it Chile, Bolivia, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, or Hong Kong, those […]

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October 21, 2019

Peace, Not War, Will Solve the “Kurdish Question”

Turkey’s incursion into Northeastern Syria, officially dubbed “Operation Peace Spring”, represents the lowest point so far in the already much-troubled saga of Turkish-Kurdish relations.  While President Erdoğan has reasoned his military operation as a means to fight terrorism, the true intentions behind the operation are barely veiled  – to divide Turks and Kurds and to […]

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August 21, 2019

Conflict and Peace in Jammu and Kashmir

My topic, Conflict and Peace in Jammu and Kashmir looks at political developments, youth stone-pelting incidents, militancy, regional divide, and recommendations for peace. This project is particularly close to my heart as I am originally from Jammu city in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. I relied on interviews, books, newspaper, and scholarly articles for […]

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July 22, 2019

Hate Speech and Polarization on the Internet

Hate speech is defined as an “abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice against a particular group, especially on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation.” In recent years, the widespread access to the internet and the proliferation of social media websites have provided new platforms for people to express their views […]

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