MER Article Turkey and the European Union There are three kinds of people in Turkey who most look forward to the country’s membership of the European Union. The first group, most obviously, comprises big businesses -- “Istanbul” capital as opposed to small and medium domestic market-oriented Anatolian capital. The other two groups are rathe Ronnie Margulies • 3 min read
MER Article The Political Uses of Islam in Turkey For the past several years, the Turkish press has seemed obsessed with irtica, a word of Arabic origin meaning religious reaction and obscurantism. The media has reported incident after incident in which hoca and imam urged their followers not to stray from the path of true Islam, where men and wome Ronnie Margulies, Ergin Yildizoğlu • 12 min read
MER Article Trade Unions and Turkey's Working Class The emergence of the working class as a force on Turkey’s political scene is essentially a phenomenon of the years since World War II. The organized expression of this class, trade unions, also made their appearance in these years. Both these developments were closely related to the process of rapid Ronnie Margulies, Ergin Yildizoğlu • 16 min read
