alphan.telek

Alphan Telek continues his doctoral research at the Center for International Studies (Centre de recherches internationales, CERI) affiliated with Sciences Po (Institut d'études politiques de Paris). Telek conducts his research on the deepening political, social, and economic precarization in Turkish society in recent years. He also gives lectures to undergraduate students in Sciences Po.

Alphan Telek graduated from Marmara University, Department of Political Science and International Relations (Eng.) with an honor degree. He received his master's degree from Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University with his thesis on Iran and secularism.

Telek, who has a book titled "We Are All Precariat Now", written on precarization and political/economic insecurities in Turkey, expresses his views on Turkish politics at national and international meetings. Telek’s op-ed articles whose topics range from populism, anti-populist movements, authoritarianism and precariat to the youth were translated into Arabic, Polish, Greek and Spanish.

Since 2017, Telek has been providing content and insight to the Turkish media both as a producer and moderator, as well as an expert.

Telek writes risk assessments and strategy proposals for Turkish politics and he works as a policy expert. Telek supports policy making processes by writing analysis and policy notes for national and international non-governmental organizations, think tanks and political parties in Turkey.

He served as the Director of Turkey at PS:EUROPE European Institute for Political and Social Studies, which was established in Austria in 2015. He is co-founder of the Istanbul Political Research Institute (IstanPol) where he still serves as the Director of Development Program.

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Thesis

Les liens entre précarisation et mobilisation en Turquie/The bonds between precarization and mobilization in Turkey, sous la direction de/supervised by Elise Massicard

  • Teaching

    - 18097 Comparative Politics - Conference de Methode (2021/22 Autumn Semester, Sciences Po Nancy)
    - 18098 Comparative Politics - Conference de Methode (2021/22 Autumn Semester, Sciences Po Nancy)

    - 57287 Political Science - Conference de Methode (2021/2022 Spring Semester, Sciences Po Reims)
    - 55121 Political Science - Conference de Methode (2021/2022 Spring Semester, Sciences Po Reims)

  • Web

    https://twitter.com/AlphanTelek

  • Languages

    Turkish, French, English

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Main Publications

Alphan Telek, Seren Selvin Korkmaz and Cem Özgüzel, "Employment and Precarity of Elderly Population in Turkey", Policy report published by Istanbul Political Research Institute, March 2021.

Alphan Telek, "The Dual Structure of the Islamic Regime Foundations: The Case of Iran", in New Middle Eastern Studies (Leicester University, NMES), June 2020, Special Issue.

Alphan Telek, "Popülizm nedir?" (What is populism?), İktisat ve Toplum Dergisi, no: 115, May 2020.

Alphan Telek, Artık Hepimiz Prekaryayız: Tehlikeli ve Umutlu Gelecek (We are All Precariat Now: Hopeful and Dangerous Future), İstanbul: Nota Bene Publishing, March 2020.

Alphan Telek, "Sosyal volkanik kuşak içinde siyasal prekarya: Sarı Yelekliler" (Political precariat in the social volcanic belt: Yellow Vests), Birikim Dergisi, no: 368, December 2019.

Alphan Telek and Edgar Şar, "Rethinking Secularism as a Political Principle in the Middle East: From Negative to Positive Understanding and Perception of Secularism," in Anna Tomaszewska and Hasse Hamalainen (eds), The Sources of Secularism Enlightenment and Beyond, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

 

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