[ANALYSIS] Rule-With-Violence: Emergence of the Erdoğanist Paramilitary in Turkey İhsan Gumus 30/05/2018 Erdoğan’s Novelty: Setting the Repression It is beyond doubt that an autocrat should have a variety of tactics so as to keep his time-horizon as broader as possible. In one hand, he should allow el... Read More...
[OPINION] The Rise of “Predatory Government” in Turkey: An Insight into the Social Background İhsan Gumus 09/02/2018 “The predators are praying you don’t educate your child.” Kwasie Kwaku Nature vs. Nurture For an arboreal primate, distance from trees is associated with predation risk from terrestri... Read More...
[OPINION] Commonwealth of Erdoğan: Milking Public Enterprises Through Turkey Wealth Fund İhsan Gumus 29/09/2017 By IHSAN GUMUS Sovereign Wealth Funds “The funds diverted from 1MDB were used for the personal benefit of the co-conspirators and their relatives and associates, including to purchase luxury real estate... Read More...
[OPINION] Erdoğan’s asset forfeiture programme: weaponising decree laws in persecution of dissents İhsan Gumus 22/08/2017 By IHSAN GUMUS He said to them, “it is written, ‘my house shall be called a house of prayer’ but you make it a den of robbers.” (Matthew 21:13) Despotic government In Persian Letters, Montes... Read More...
[OPINION] Decree Laws as a means of Revival of the “Civil Death” in Turkey İhsan Gumus 28/07/2017 By IHSAN GUMUS Hunger strike Nuriye G. (academic) and Semih Ö. (teacher) are just two of the victims fired by the decree laws introduced under the state of emergency. Although it remains highly uncert... Read More...
[OPINION] Disturbing Questions: From the “Voiceless Victims of the Crises” in Turkey İhsan Gumus 11/07/2017 by IHSAN GUMUS Country: Turkey In August of 2016, N.H., a housewife in Sinop province, was detained during the police control in traffic and put into the Sinop Prison. N.H. was 14-week pregnant w... Read More...
ECHR: A New Solution Partner of Erdogan Regime? İhsan Gumus 19/06/2017 by IHSAN GUMUS Burning heretics with low cost All the doors are being closed to their faces. This may suit best to describe harsh conditions under which victims of the “state of emergency”... Read More...
