Research Institute on Turkey is a grassroots research cooperative based in New York City.
We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers, artists, writers, architects, scientists and activists who explore and engage in commonization practices for social change.
Our goal is to contribute to a pluralistic, egalitarian, and democratic Turkey with an emphasis on human rights, social and economic justice, gender equality, sexual rights, cultural and political recognition and ecologic sustainability from a critical historical perspective.
We develop in-situ embodied knowledge through in-depth, focused research and policy analysis, creative public engagement, collective learning activities, solidarity campaigns and network collaborations.
Our current research areas
Urban Justice and Right to the City
Labor & Finance
Collective Memory
Aesthetics and Politics
Our current research areas
- Facilitating interdisciplinary research through collaborative networks;
- Developing practices of creative public engagement including data visualization projects, media campaigns, recording of collective memory in archives,
- Organizing lectures, workshops, exhibitions, conferences and summer schools as part of the RIT University of the Commons.
Our current research areas
- An ongoing collective learning process
- Open and egalitarian participation of members in decision-making
- An alternative to corporate think-tank models
- A productive model of brewing ideas and action through solidarity
- A hub for creativity and of thinking outside the box
- A collective body of work that culminates impactful tools for social transformation and change
Blog
Joint statement on the killing of Tahir Elçi
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The New Kavala Indictment Constitutes the Denial of Law
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Targeting and Investigating Organizations That Criticize Hate Speech Against LGBTI+ Must Come to an End
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OSMAN KAVALA BOOK TALLK
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Joint Statement Cumhuriyet trial, 26 April 2017
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