285 search results for “turkey” in the Public website
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A History of the National Security State in Turkey
Zeynep Sarlak defended her thesis on 25 August 2020
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periphery: anti-veiling campaigns and state-society relations in 1930s Turkey
This dissertations studies state-society relations in 1930s Turkey, focusing on the anti-veiling campaigns in the mid-1930s and aiming to understand the ways in which the Kemalist policies were received, interpreted, negotiated, compromised and/or resisted by various actors in the provinces.
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The Arts of Memory. The Remembrance of the Armenians in Turkey.
This study is an attempt to reconstruct the muted violent past by breaking the monopoly of the Turkish state over the memory of the Armenian genocide.
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Connecting citizens: The fused identities of Nusaybin, Turkey and Qamishle, Syria
This project explores how the populations of the historically contiguous towns of Nusaybin, Turkey and Qamishle, Syria articulate citizenship in the everyday.
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Women’s Involvement in the Leftist Guerrilla Movements in Iran and Turkey during the 1960s and 1970s
This project compares and contrasts how and why several Turkish and Iranian women were compelled to participate in leftist guerilla movements in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The Radicalization of the Left in Turkey and Iran in the 1970s and a Comparative Analysis the Activist Women's Experiences
Sevil Cakir-Kilincoglu defended her thesis on 18 December 2019
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ECPR concerned about academic freedom in Turkey
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) has expressed its concern about reported infringements of academic freedom in Turkey. The ECPR, of which Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science is a member, urges the Turkish political authorities to ensure that all academics can do their…
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PKK and Turkey: time for peace?
The imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, called for a peace settlement between Turkey and PKK on 28 February 2015.
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New publication: The Application of the EU-Turkey Agreement
Mariana Gkliati has recently published an article in the European Journal of Legal Studies. In her contribution, Gkliati discusses the application of the EU-Turkey Agreement, analysing the decisions of the Greek Appeals Committees on whether Turkey constitutes a safe third country. She assesses the…
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Conflict between Turkey and Greece about territorial waters
Thanks to modern technology, it is now possible to extract more gas and oil in the eastern part of the Mediterranean than in the past. As a result, a conflict has once again erupted between Turkey and Greece, in which Turkey is making claim to part of the Mediterranean Sea around Cyprus.
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'Turkey. A Modern History' now in nine languages
The book on Turkey. A Modern History written by Professor Erik-Jan Zürcher, Professor of Turkish Studies, is now available in nine different languages. Arabic and Polish versions have now been published.
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Deniz Tat
Faculty of Humanities
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Onur Ada
Faculty of Humanities
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Güldeniz Kibris
Faculty of Humanities
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Ugur Derin
Faculty of Humanities
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Omer Kocyigit
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik-jan Zurcher
Faculty of Humanities
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anti-terrorism legislation on the freedom of expression in France and Turkey
The Europa Institute has invited Dorjana Bojanovska from Macedonia to visit Leiden Law School to conduct her master thesis research from 6 March - 31 March 2017. Dorjana is a student at the Comparative Constitutional Law program at the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University. The…
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Book project
Book project
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University condemns the forced resignation of 1,577 university deans in Turkey
Leiden University is extremely concerned about the situation in Turkey and offers all possible support to its Turkish colleagues.
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Erik-Jan Zürcher in Nieuwsuur about the purges in Turkey
On 19 July Erik-Jan Zürcher, professor of Turkish languages and cultures, made a TV appearance in Nieuwsuur to talk about the actions Erdogan took after the failed coup.
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New publication: The EU-Turkey Deal and the Safe Third Country Concept before the Greek Asylum Appeals Committees
Mariana Gkliati has recently published an article at the special issue ‘Turkey's Changing Migration Regime and its Global and Regional Dynamics’ of Movements, Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies.
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Petra de Bruijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Diederik Meijer
Faculteit Archeologie
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Hans Theunissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
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Symposium on media freedom in Turkey
Conference
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Understanding present-day Turkey
Lecture
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Understanding present-day Turkey
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Müge Kinacioglu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
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Courses
“Courses” offers interested scholars and students open-access course material which can be used in class.
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities
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From socialism via anti-imperialism to nationalism
This dissertation explores how domestic political power struggles in Greece and Turkey during the Cold War engaged with the ongoing conflict in Cyprus and aims to demonstrate how socialist parties in Greece and Turkey struggled with the concept of the “nation” in battling for power and political positioning…
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Making Sense of Turkey's Cold War
Lecture, webinar
- Turkey and the Middle East: the Dangers of Overreach
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Erik-Jan Zürcher, professor of Turkish Studies, opens the European Law master
On 8 September the students of the European Law Master gathered in the Lorentzzaal for the festive opening of their programme.
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The Sung home : narrative, morality, and the Kurdish nation
This dissertation gives an ethnographic account of Kurdish dengbêj narrative from a theorethical perspective.
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Turkey in crisis: U-turn or head-on?
Lecture
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Turkish Studies
Welcome to the website of Turkish Studies at Leiden University. On this website you will find information on the work and the activities of the people studying the Ottoman Empire and Turkey at Leiden University.
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The Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia
Turkey's Belle Epoque and the Transition to a Modern Nation State
- Religion & Diplomacy
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Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Tarsus
After the advent of Islam in the 7th century C.E., the strategic geographical position of Tarsus (its proximity to the sea and to the mountain pass leading to inland Anatolia) made this town the de facto capital of the thughur, a historical and geographical term created by Muslim geographers qualifying…
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A History of the National Security State in Turkey
PhD Defence
- Parliamentary Diplomacy
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Sources
Increasingly, primary sources from the period before the emergence of digital media are being digitized. These “digital surrogates” have facilitated the work of (historical) researchers; instead of having to visit several archives, libraries and other places, the (primary) sources appear in front of…
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Correlates of Complexity
Essays in Archaeology and Assyriology Dedicated to Diederik J.W. Meijer in Honour of his 65th Birthday
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Arabic Studies
LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.
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Islam and culture
Thanks to its early civilisation and continuous mix of influences, the Muslim world has a rich and varied culture. The study of material culture, books, stories, films and increasingly television series teaches us about the structure of modern-day Muslim societies.