International audience Turkey has a larger population than France, the United Kingdom or Italy. Germany is still more heavily populated, but the projections for 2025 place Turkey at 85 million inhabitants against less than 80 million in Germany. However Turkish indicators show a distinct deceleratio...

Will Turkey finally adopt a new constitution? This is in any case what seems to be expected at the beginning of the parliamentary session. The event is not a surprise, bearing in mind that constitutional reform had been one of the main themes of the election campaign, which preceded the parliamentar...

The relationship of Turkey with Europe and the Middle East is greatly influenced by the actions of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from coming to power in 2002 until nowadays. This thesis tries to make clear how the changes realized by the Turkish Islam during this period impacted on the for...

Introduction The Kurdish socio-political space in Turkey has undergone a profound transformation since the 2000s. There are radical changes both in the dynamics in Turkey and externally. In 1999, following the capture of Abdullah Öcalan, the Charismatic leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiy...

after the failed putsch of 15 July 2016, the Turkish authorities quickly resumed control of the situation — even the advantage — militarily but above all politically. What has changed this attempted coup d’état for power balances?

nationalism is likely to be a strong indicator of the elections that will mark the year 2007 in Turkey. Although the decoration has changed, the current context is a reminder of the background that preceded the 1999 legislation, after which the most nationalist Turkish political formations had grown...

Turkey’s position is paradoxical. Although it adheres to the main Western institutions, starting with Otan, its membership of the West is often contested because of its competing, turcic and Muslim identities. Turkey is also a member of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which is part of a...

whereas on 14 October 2 020 the Turkish flagged Oruc-Reis, a Turkish flagged gas research vessel, once again entered Greek territorial waters, the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated in a speech in Ankara that it was time to ‘teach Greece the lesson it deserves’.

It is undeniable that 1928 represents the zero year of writing in Turkey, not only in alphabetical terms, but also in linguistic, journalistic and literary terms. The reform of the alphabet has profoundly changed the conditions for literary creation and it is through the press that the change is mea...

Basé on surveys of various faith-based NGOs (France, Turkey), this article analyses the humanitarian practice of Muslim sacrifice. He highlighted the reasons and challenges of the “humanitarisation” of a ritual with complex status in contemporary societies. Making sacrifice an act of solidarity and...

On 4 May 2016, after several weeks of hidden tension, Ahmet Davutoglu and Recep Tayyip Erdogan clarified their relations and commitment to the State Summit. The Extraordinary Congress on 22 May will formalise the departure of Davutoglu, which will therefore cease to be Prime Minister. This impeachme...

François Georgeon, research director and head of the Turkish and Ottoman study team at the CNRS, is the author of a book on Abdülhamid II, which has been very much appreciated and commented on in Turkey. He was, in recent days, the IFEA guest in Istanbul, where on 3 February 2007 he gave a conferenc...

The secularism without democracy The renewal of Islamist movements experienced in most Muslim countries since the late 70s refers to the question of whether Islam is compatible with democracy. In substance, this question has several dimensions. First, Islam as a religion is often seen as an obstacle...

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Koç University (ku.edu.tr) is accepting applications for the position of Director for the Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations. The center will be established by the integration of the Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilizations in Antalya (http://akmed.kaleicim...

The feeling of a fragility of secularism is a good starting point for our reflection, because this fragility attests at the same time to the fact that secularism is in a critical situation, that it designates less the full extent of a response than the form of a problem; and that, however, it must b...

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In Iraq, Kurds have a quasi-state. The Syrian civil war has resulted in the empowerment of the Kurds of the country. AKP’s ambiguous policy provides the Kurds with a new political space in Turkey. However, this development of entities approaching state structures does not lead to the creation of a s...

This article proposes to trace from a diachronistic perspective the various stages of development and heritage of the Marie House [Meryem Ana Evi], the presumed place of its Assumption, discovered at the end of the 19th century near Ephese. In a few years, the site has become a local pilgrimage cent...

All continents, Europe is the one whose definition is regularly the most controversial. Where does it start? Where does it stop? This geopolitics of Europe deals with the composite territory from the Atlantic to the wider Russia. Its configuration has been profoundly reshaped since the end of the Co...

This article seeks to understand the ways in which children’s judges engage in the judiciary in Turkey. It reveals two categories of judges? those who make ‘? code?’ a priority, and those who prioritise ‘? file?’. The analyses also confirm that the practices of judges adopting a position of technici...

Turkey: what scenarios do we face with Islamic State?