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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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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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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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June 25, 2019

The struggle for LGBTQ rights in Turkey

During Pride month this year, the governorates of Izmir and Antalya banned all Pride-related events citing public safety and security concerns. One month earlier, the Pride march organized by the students of Middle East Technical University in Ankara was violently broken up by the police. Pride marches have been organized in Istanbul since 1993, but […]

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June 3, 2019

US Institute of Peace’s event on How to Advance Inclusive Peace Processes

On May 30, 2019, US Institute of Peace organized an event, How to Advance Inclusive Peace Processes: Mobilizing Men as Partners for Women, Peace, and Security. The speakers at the event talked about how men in positions of authority could help ensure that women are included in peace processes and decision-making. Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini from the […]

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