Unexpected calls to prayer from mosques in Turkey caught many off guard on the night of the attempted coup. An ethnomusicologist explains the political and social power of sound.
Fethullah Gülen in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, Sept. 24, 2013.
REUTERS/Selahattin Sevi
It may sound farfetched that a scholar living in Pennsylvania planned the overthrow of the Turkish government. But Turkey is demanding the U.S. extradite the Hizmet leader.
What will the economic legacy of the coup and response be?
Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters
Quick measures by the central bank prevented a financial crisis, but investors are worried. Longer-term economic effects will depend on how long Erdogan’s purge goes on.
A scholar who grew up in Turkey explains the important role Turkey’s academics play and why, following the recent coup, the government went after them.
In the future, will Turkey be a little, or a lot, democratic?
Ammar Awad/Reuters
A professor at Ohio State surveyed Turkish citizens about their views on democracy. What he learned helps explain the current crisis in the EU wannabe.
Emergency laws can sometimes be the biggest threat to a state and its people.
Street protests in Turkey are denouncing the ‘traitors’, but the government has offered little solid evidence against those it accuses of plotting a coup.
EPA/Cem Turkel
Alp Ozerdem reports from Turkey on a violent, thwarted attempt to take over the country by force. It was a bizarre night of botched announcements and presidential Facetime calls.
Sibel Oktay, University of Illinois at Springfield
Three suicide bombers killed 42 at Turkey’s busiest airport June 28. A scholar explains how Turkey’s foreign policy blunders have made the country such a target for terrorist attacks.
A Syrian asylum seeker has been permitted to stay in Greece on the grounds that Turkey is not safe for return. It could be a major blow for the EU’s controversial refugee strategy.
Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University