Political and social scientist Adj. Prof. Dr. Gülistan Gürbey in conversation with Dr Katja Gentinetta.
Thursday, 12. October 2023, 18:30 – 20:00 h
From the Studio
Turkey will be one hundred years old in October 2023. It has been ruled by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) since November 2002. Since then, Turkey has undergone a major transformation from a flawed democracy to a rising autocracy as well as a regional power with far-reaching consequences for the country's internal development as well as its foreign relations. In the presidential and parliamentary elections in May 2023, President Erdogan once again scored a victory. What does this mean for further developments in Turkey, for foreign and security policy, for relations with the West (NATO, USA, EU)? Where is Turkey heading? Will the authoritarian course be perpetuated or are there chances for a democratic reversal? Domestic and foreign policy perspectives will be examined.
Gülistan Gürbey is habilitated political scientist and private lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin with a focus on peace and de facto states, flawed democracies, foreign policy, authoritarianism, Turkish and Kurdish migrants in Germany and EU states, International protection of minorities with a regional focus on Middle East, Turkey, Kurds, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Cyprus.
She completed her doctorate at the University of Bonn with the renowned contemporary historian Professor Karl Dietrich Bracher and habilitated at the Free University of Berlin with the renowned peace researcher Professor Ernst-Otto Czempiel.
Several research stays in the USA, England, Turkey, Cyprus, Kurdistan-Iraq and other countries. Numerous publications in several languages, in renowned journals, e.g., "Between Diplomacy and Non-Diplomacy. Foreign Relations of Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), "Geopolitical Shifts and Ethnic Conflicts: The Transnational Kurdish Conflict in the Contemporary Middle East" (International Journal of Violence and Conflict, 2022), "Foreign Policy in Defective Democracies. Political decision-making processes in Turkey" (Campus Verlag, 2005).