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Turkish Twilight: How Erdoğan Gov’t Cornered Itself at Home and Abroad Simon Dubbins – director of international & research, Unite the Union
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Turkish Twilight: How Erdoğan Gov’t Cornered Itself at Home and Abroad George Howarth is a Labour Party politician who serves as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Knowsley.
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Turkish Twilight: How Erdoğan Gov’t Cornered Itself at Home and Abroad Siobhain McDonagh MP is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Turks and Kurds. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Mitcham and Morden.
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Gordian Knot: Cyprus trapped between a federal and two-state solution Mary Southcott works for the Friends of Cyprus.  This is a UK based cross party grouping containing mainly UK politicians, but others, academics and journalists, who…
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Gordian Knot: Cyprus trapped between a federal and two-state solution Niyazi Kızılyürek is a Turkish Cypriot political scientist. He is, as of 2016, a professor of political history in the University of Cyprus, specialising on the…
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CEFTUS Online Talk: Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity, with Dr Gülay Türkmen and Dr Mehmet Kurt Dr Mehmet Kurt is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE).…
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CEFTUS Online Talk: Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity, with Dr Gülay Türkmen and Dr Mehmet Kurt Dr Gülay Türkmen is a political sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz’s…
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Online Talk ‘Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds: Social Embeddedness, Hegemony, and Identity’ Prof. Michiel Leezenberg teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on…
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Online Talk ‘Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds: Social Embeddedness, Hegemony, and Identity’ Dr. Bahar Baser is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations. She is also an associate research…
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