Cemal Özkahraman

Cemal Ozkahraman is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, working on informal cross-border trade in the Syrian, Turkish and Iraqi ‘borderlands’ of Kurdistan in the middle east. He holds a PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.

Erdoğan’s aggression against Turkey’s Kurds—it’s personal

Cemal Özkahraman

Turkey’s Kurds have long faced oppression by the state. But they have come to be seen by the Erdoğan regime as the main obstacle to its untrammelled power.

Turkey’s Presidential Election: Spearhead Of Authoritarianism In The EU’s Face?

Cemal Özkahraman

When the Justice and Development Party (AKP), under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, won the 2002 election, there was substantial optimism that the EU