Aylin Topal

I first met Prof. Michael Burawoy in person at the Conference of the Council of National Associations of the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Ankara in 2013. At the time, he was serving as the President of the ISA. Since then, I became an active member of the ISA and Michael and I remained in contact, meeting at ISA conferences and exchanging emails on important political events. He was truly a transdisciplinary social scientist. I, as a political...

Over the last two years, Turkey’s social and political developments have triggered new debates on the country’s political regime. What is the nature of the regime, what led to the uprisings in June 2013, and what is the aftermath?[1] Neoliberalism in Turkey dates back to the year 1980: on January 24, 1980, the advent of Turkey’s structural adjustment program and on September 12, Turkey’s military coup...