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Turkey heads for a run-off vote- Why? My two kurush on Turkish elections

Turkey’s presidential election will be decided in a May 28 run-off vote. In the first round, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took 49.5 percent of votes versus his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s 44.9 percent. While Muharrem Ince withdrew from the presidential race days ahead of the vote, Sinan Ogan, the ultranationalist candidate backed by an anti-migrant party received…

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The Deep Authoritarian Imaginary

Authoritarian populism isn’t the only authoritarian project we should be worried about, as Tanzania under the late John Magufuli showed.

Dr Daniel Paget wrote a blog post for Africa Is a Country, a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing on and from the African left. He argues that in many…

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Turkey Earthquake: Where corruption and natural disasters meet

On 6th of February, two massive earthquakes with the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 rocked Turkey (and Syria). An estimated 14 million people in more than 10 cities were affected in and around of southeastern of Turkey. More than 300.000 buildings were either destroyed or severely damaged. Thousands of people were struck…

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Strategic Studies Wargaming Club Inaugural Game: The Soviets are the winners!

The newly established Strategic Studies Wargaming Club hosted its debut gaming session this week. Set during the Cold War, the game, "Twilight Struggle," covers a vast array of historical happenings, from the Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1948 and 1967 to Vietnam and the U.S. peace movement to the Cuban Missile Crisis and…

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Counter-Terror and Muslim charity in the UK Post-Covid

Flames of controversy have been reignited following the UK Governments review of the counter-terror policy ‘Prevent’. Beset by delays, strong criticisms of the choice of reviewers, and boycotted by 17 organisations (including Amnesty International), the review of Prevent was published in February 2023. While the Prevent review strongly denies undue…

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