PSA Turkish Politics Specialist Group hosted a virtual book launch event in which Dr Spyros Sofos presented his book Turkish Politics and ‘The People’ Mass Mobilisation and Populism, published by Edinburgh University Press. The recording of the book launch is available on Youtube.
The book was discussed by Dr Evren Balta (Özyeğin University) and Dr Toygar Sinan Baykan (Kirklareli University). Sofos’s presentation was followed by feedback from discussants and a Q&A session.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Spyros Sofos is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre.
He has previously worked as a Research Officer at the LSE Middle East Centre on the Kuwait programme Ecologies of Belonging and Exclusion: An Intersectional Analysis of Urban Citizenship in Kuwait City project. Prior to joining the LSE, he worked as Lecturer and Research Coordinator at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University; Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University; Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth and held visiting positions at Siena, Tartu and Istanbul Bilgi Universities.
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