Author profile: Murat Akan

Murat Akan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici Univesity, Istanbul, Turkey.

Opinion – Thinking about Heroes and Humanity During COVID-19

Murat Akan • May 24 2020 • Articles

Even the ones among us whom we would consider the freest because they leave in the free parts of the world are dominated.

A New Constitution for Turkey Without Democracy

Murat Akan • Jan 12 2012 • Articles

Turkey may be heading for yet another constitutional change, but not for a societally-based and well-deliberated democratic constitution writing. Meanwhile, deliberations continue under a façade of the moderate Islamists as the vanguards of anti-military democratic politics in Turkey.