Below are the 10 FAQs about the ‘what’s, ‘why’s and ‘how’s of the most recent call that we extend to the international academic community to support the academics in Turkey who have been…
I will begin with a quote from the prologue of my book “We walked together on these parallel roads” published three years ago in 2014. The introduction of this investigative research describes how…
My particular interest in silence and denial within the larger realm of memory studies is driven by the sheer ambition of answering one question: “what breaks silence?” As oral historians, we co-create narratives of…
by Simten Coşar What is Academics for Peace? Academics for Peace is a group of academics, mainly concerned with the escalation of the conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the…
In response to the economic and ecological crises which are becoming more and more frequent, more serious questions have emerged about hegemonic notions of development, which are based on the assumption that economic growth,…
Research Institute on Turkey (RIT) is participating in the Left Forum 2015 with four panel discussions. In line with our areas of research, the main focus of these discussions is the concept of commonization. We…
* for Turkish click here / Türkçe duyuru için tıklayınız. Dear Friends! The Debt and Financialization Research Network (DE-FIRE), a project supported by the Research Institute on Turkey (RIT), has kicked off its activities…
Approaches seeking the causes of the 2008 crisis in certain structural dynamics are mostly sought out within the scope of the Marxist tradition. Accordingly, the crisis resulting from the downward trend in profits by…
On April 25, 2015 the Debt & Financialization Research Network Turkey (DE-FIRE) has held a panel discussion at the Historical Materialism Conference 2015 in New York City. Below you can find the playlist including…
Elif Karacimen, member of the Debt and Financialization Research Network (DE-FIRE) Turkey has published her paper “Interlinkages between credit, debt and the labour market: evidence from Turkey” today in the Cambridge Journal of Economics….