Turkey program
Turkey program
Rationale
Created in 2019, the Noria-research Turkey Program aims to study political reconfigurations through the prism of regime transformations.
The program gathers researchers around a multidisciplinary approach and qualitative methodology. Collectively, they produce field-based research, analytically supported by cartography and infographics, to highlight the contemporary transformations of politics in Turkey.
The Turkey program investigates three research axis:
→ Transformations of the state
→ The evolution of the partisan field
→ Turkey’s relations with its regional environment
Our core ambition is to think of these three axes as connected and to focus on their interactions. Presidentialisation of the regime and debates on its legacy reveal the relationship between political party competition, internal balance of the Turkish state and strategic reorientations of the country.
Throughout its activities, the Noria Turkey Program relies on institutional partnerships, such as CERI-Sciences-Po, Inalco or IFEA.
PUBLICATIONS
“Kanal Istanbul”: multiple dimensions and meanings of a glocal “megaproject”
16 October 2022October 2022 JEAN-FRANCOIS PEROUSE The ‘Kanal İstanbul’ project is a…
Read MoreTowards a post-AKP Turkey? Parties and coalitions on the eve of the elections
20 January 2022January 2022 YOHANAN BENHAIM, ELISE MASSICARD & ALEXANDRE TOUMARKINE Turkey's…
Read MoreThe economic crisis of 2018, an opportunity and a test for the Turkish presidency
14 March 2019MARCH 2019 NICOLAS RESSLER Turkey has been facing a major…
Read MoreNoria’s Turkey program offers an analysis of contemporary Turkey and its transformations through original cartographic and infographic work. Based on qualitative, quantitative and fieldwork data, maps and infographics provide an essential tool for program researchers in interpreting and transmitting knowledge to a wider audience.

EVENTS
Noria Buluşmaları
Noria’s Turkey Program constitutes a space for research, publication and exchange in order to feed public and scientific debate on contemporary Turkey. Every year, open or closed events entitled the “Noria Buluşmaları” contribute to the scientific and public debates and promote rich interactions between specialists.
On 19 and 20 October 2020, in partnership with CERI/Sciences Po, Noria’s Turkey program organised the conference “AKP and Beyond: the transformation of the Turkish political field”, as well as the seminar “Assessing the modalities of presidentialisation: political, institutional and economic reconfigurations in contemporary Turkey”.
On 3 November 2021, Noria’s Turkey program organised the seminar “A new foreign policy paradigm? Ideological and practical dimension”
TEAM
Yohanan Benhaïm (IFEA) – Program Co-director
Alexandre Toumarkine (Inalco) – Program Co-director
Claire Visier (Rennes 2) – Program Editor
Elvan Arik
Anouck Corte-Real
Théotime Chabre
Adrian Foucher
Béatrice Garapon
Elen Le Chêne
Cem Deniz Kut
Sümbül Kaya
Elise Massicard
Maïssam Nimer
Cléa Pineau
Nicolas Ressler
Ece Nirun
Nouran Gad
Jean-François Pérouse