Turkey greenlights Sweden NATO membership
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. In a joint statement following the meeting, Kristersson stated that Sweden was ready to provide active support to Turkey’s EU membership process. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf […]
On The Move with Begüm Başdaş (47): Human rights impact of the EU-Turkey Deal, Guest Minos Mouzourakis – RSA
This week On the Move, Begüm Başdaş talked with Minos Mouzourakis, Legal Officer at Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) about the past seven years of the EU – Turkey Statement, well known as the EU-Turkey Deal. Mouzourakisdiscussed Europe’s migration management policies with a focus on the human rights impact of the Deal and articulated the concerns centered on the […]
Freedom of expression in Hungary in the aftermath of the coronavirus act – Interview with Budapest-based journalist Justin Spike
Seven weeks ago, the Hungarian parliament passed the controversial coronavirus act which extended the state of emergency in Hungary with no specific time limit and granted the government extraordinary powers to rule by decree until the end of the state of emergency. The so-called coronavirus act put media and civil society in Hungary in a […]
Taking advantage of a pandemic: Hungary passes law allowing Prime Minister Orbán to rule by decree – Interview with Tamás Lattmann and Dalma Dojcsák
Civil society members and academics in Hungary are concerned about the government’s insistence on extending the state of emergency with no time limit and acquire more power taking advantage of the coronavirus outbreak. An International Law expert based in Budapest, Tamás Lattmann and Hungarian Civil Liberties Union’s Political Freedoms Project Director Dalma Dojcsák answered Özge […]
This Week in Turkey (156): with Begüm Başdaş on the migrants at the Turkish-Greek border and Turkey-EU relations
This Week in Turkey‘s guest was Dr.Begüm Başdaş, Einstein Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, where her research focuses on gender and migration in Germany and Greece. Dr.Başdaş evaluated the situation at the Greek-Turkish border where migrants have been waiting to cross over for the past week and how it will impact EU-Turkish relations. She […]
Libya’s proxy war and its future – Interview with Emadeddin Badi
The fifth installment of the Foreign Policy Talks co-organized by Istanbul Political Research Institute (IstanPol) and Heinrich Böll Stiftung Turkey Representation focused on Turkey’s foreign policy towards the Libyan conflict and its various aspects with the participation of Political Analyst Emadeddin Badi from Middle East Institute. Journalist Şebnem Arsu interviewed Badi, who discussed Libya’s proxy war and its future.
Exclusive Interview with Manès Weisskircher: “The rise of far-right in Europe is a long term process”
In this exclusive interview, Edgar Şar hosted Manès Weisskircher, Doctor of Political Science at TU Dresden. Weisskircher commented on the rise of far right parties and movements in Western Europe.
Interview with Frank Schimmelfennig: “The rise of inequality has created a class of ‘left behind’s’ in Europe”
Camera and video edit – Fatima Çelik Medyascope’s Burak Tatari talked with Prof. Frank Schimmelfennig, a member of the Center for Comparative and International Studies at ETH Zurich, on the past, present and future of the European Union. Schimmelfennig was a speaker at the Foreign Policy Forum, hosted by Boğaziçi University and the Turkish Industry […]
Exclusive interview with Hans Kundnani: “I am not sure that what we are facing today is a crisis of democracy”
In an exclusive interview, Edgar Şar and his guest Hans Kundnani, Senior Fellow at Chatham House, discuss the crisis of democracy throughout the world, the role of populism in this crisis and the future of the European Union.
