Aykan Erdemir

Aykan Erdemir
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Dr Aykan Erdemir is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Between 2011 and 2015, he was a member of the Turkish Parliament, and served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet.

Dr. Erdemir is a founding member of the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB), and a recipient of the 2016 Stefanus Prize for Religious Freedom.

Dr. Erdemir worked as a faculty member at Middle East Technical University and Bilkent University. He is the coauthor ofAntagonistic Tolerance: Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites and Spaces (Routledge, 2016), and coedited Rethinking Global Migration: Practices, Policies, and Discourses in the European Neighbourhood (KORA, 2008) and Social Dynamics of Global Terrorism and Prevention Policies (IOS Press, 2008).

Conspiracy and cronyism: Turkey’s economic spiral
Conspiracy and cronyism: Turkey’s economic spiral
Making sense of the Turkish economy means delving into the way Recep Tayyip Erdogan views the world.
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