...In the meantime, Turkey can enjoy the independence and prestige of a public estrangement. Israel, in turn, is left painfully aware that it needs Turkey far more than Turkey needs...
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The headscarf and citizenship in Turkey
by Ayse Kadioglu...robe The early republican elite in Turkey showed a great distaste for religion. They tried to diminish the religious outlook of women by embracing Western dress codes. In the end,...
Human rights in the era of the AKP
by Howard Eissenstat...many, many reasons for concern. From both the perspective of the state and its people Turkey’s stance on basic human rights is complex. On the one hand, Turkey is a...
Most-Read Essays of 2024

Check out The Immanent Frame‘s ten most-read essays of 2024! This year’s essays were featured in the forums “Ruinations: Violence in these times” and “Experimental books.” Others were standalone essays,...
Letter from Istanbul
by Hikmet KocamanerI have come to Turkey at a time when discussions of a “shift in the axis” of Turkey’s foreign policy have reached their peak. The term “axis shift” was coined...
The surprising history of global blasphemy law
...the House of Lords solicited an official statement from Indian attorney-general Soli Sorabjee on the Code’s outcomes. Sorabjee’s report was emphatically negative. The Code, he said, had fostered “intolerance, divisiveness,...
Turkey’s coup by court
by Jenny White...by Prime Minister Erdogan in which he calls Turkey a Muslim society, a statement by former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell calling Turkey a “moderate Islamic republic,” and Erdogan’s...
New freedoms in Turkey — for whom?
by Jenny White...lifestyle envisioned in the early twentieth century by Turkey’s revered founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and guarded today by the Turkish state – the military, judiciary, educational institutions and their supporters...
Fall 2024 Call for Individual Essays – US Politics and Religion

...but are not limited to, the role of religious ideas, practices, and organizations in the 2024 presidential race and its outcome; changing views on migrants, borders, and territory or land;...
On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society

...Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2017), I envisioned a panoramic study of a vibrant, emergent field of religious and political action in Turkey, embedded in the...