November 23, 2019
Education plays a very important role for a country to grow. Whether it is economically or socially, or culturally, education is key for a country’s progress. Tomorrow is Teachers’ Day. Education can be seen as a weapon to improve life. It can be viewed as the most important tool to change life. It is… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
November 16, 2019
NATION-BUILDING: HOMOGENIZATION POLICIES AND DYNAMICS¨ Almost every nation-state since their inception has had some kind of an ‘imagined’ desired citizen profile. This concept of desired citizen has its constitutive others too. Thus, while on the one hand nation-state endeavors to construct desired citizenship; on the other hand and simultaneously, it tries to assimilate or dissimilate… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
November 10, 2019
It’s been 81 years since Atatürk died, but he remains the sole super hero of modern Turkey. Ataturk was unanimously elected President of the new Republic of Turkey by the Assembly. On April 23, 1920, Ataturk was elected to its Presidency. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in Kocakasim District, Salonika in 1881. His… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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Current news, History, InfoSociety, Political Discourse, Turkey , Ataturk |
October 21, 2019
Turkey on Oct. 9 launched Operation Peace Spring to eliminate terrorists from northeastern Syria to secure Turkey’s borders, aid in the safe return of Syrian refugees and ensure Syria’s territorial integrity. It is knowm that, on Oct. 17, Turkey agreed to pause the operation for 120 hours to allow the withdrawal of YPG/PKK terrorists. … » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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Current news, EurActiv.com, History, Operation Peace Spring, Syrian War, The US, Turkey |
October 18, 2019
This blog piece is an attempt to analyze Syrian civil war ( or crisis ) from the perspective of humanitarian intervention debate. Like my previous piece, this piece has a format of an essay paper that aims to provide some terminology before the short analysis. *Terminology:Definition of Humanitarian Intervention: Such intervention refers to actions undertaken… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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Current news, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Syrian War, Uncategorized, United Nations |
October 6, 2019
This blog piece I will write today is organized like a take-home essay and it has a simple question: What does/should Trump do vis-a-vis- the nuclear programmes of Iran and North Korea? First I will define terminology then write some basic information of the two countries then I will try to make some evaluations… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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Current news, Energy, EurActiv.com, Political Sociology, The US , Donald Trump, Iran, North Korea, Nuclear Armament, Nuclear Energy |
September 18, 2019
State-formation process entails producing some kind of an ‘imagined’good or desired citizen profile. This concept of imagined desired citizen has its significant other(s) too who have influenced the constitution or reconstitution of the national identity. The notion of a significant other may be another ethnic or religious group and significant others have an influence… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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EurActiv.com, History, InfoSociety, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Uncategorized |
September 4, 2019
Today my blog piece is again about a book. The book is written by Ahmet Öncü and Gürcan Koçan with the name “Citizen Alevi in Turkey: Beyond Confirmation and Denial”. Here are some important points covered in the book Understood as one “imagined” homogeneous socio-cultural-political whole (Gellner, 1997; Anderson, 1991),… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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EurActiv.com, History, InfoSociety, Languages & Culture, Religion |
August 14, 2019
The UN is an international organization founded with the aim to promote peace and stability in international platform along with providing cooperation in the area of economy and culture among the states. The UN was founded in 1945 after the Second World War. In the Charter of the United Nations signed in San Francisco (… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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Current news, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, History, Uncategorized, United Nations |
July 24, 2019
The signing of Lausanne Peace Treaty marks the end of the War of Independence. The Treaty was signed with France, Portugal, Bulgaria, Japan, Greece, Romania, Italy, Britain, Belgium and Yugoslavia in Switzerland. The Treaty of Sevres (1920) had remained as a draft treaty and could never come into force. Finally, the Treaty of Lausanne… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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Current news, EurActiv.com, FirstWorldWar, History, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Uncategorized |
