Landed_Internationals_Cover_-_Top_Half_Only Current Analysis Designing Nationhood in Turkey’s Universities Begüm Adalet reviews Burak Erdim's "Landed Internationals: Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East." As in past decades, universities in Turkey are venues of contestation between authority and resistance, with the government imposing its singular vision of a “pious, Begüm Adalet • 8 min read
Turkish riot police block the main gate of Boğaziçi University during protests against President Erdogan’s appointment of a new rector. Istanbul, January 4, 2021. Kemal Aslan/Reuters Current Analysis Boğaziçi Resists Authoritarian Control of the Academy in Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's appointment of Melih Bulu as the new rector of Boğaziçi University on January 1, 2021 provoked outrage among students and faculty in Turkey. Alemdaroğlu and Babül explain the anger behind the continuing protests and how Boğaziçi's struggle fits into a long history of Ayça Alemdaroğlu, Elif Babül • 15 min read
