Erdogan's Turkey (PDF)

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at London Metropolitan University, Coventry University and GIGA in Germany. He is also an associate researcher (Chercheur Associé) at Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes, fellow at ELIAMEP and editor of Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey and International Journal of Religion. He was a Swedish Institute Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), at Linköping University, Scholar in Residence at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, numerous policy reports, opinion pieces and co-editor of four special issues on religion and politics and Turkish politics. Dr Öztürk is the co-editor of Authoritarian Politics in Turkey: Elections, Resistance and the AKP (2017), Ruin or Resilience? The Future of the Gulen Movement in Transnational Political Exile (Routledge, 2018) and Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey (Routledge, 2019). His first solo-authored book, Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century was published in January 2021. He is a regular contributor to media outlets such as Open Democracy, The Conversation, Huffington Post and France 24.