About the Türkiye Program

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 Türkiye.

The Türkiye program investigates three research axis:

Transformations of the state
The evolution of the partisan field
Türkiye’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 Türkiye Program relies on institutional partnerships, such as CERI-Sciences-Po, Inalco or IFEA.

Noria’s Türkiye Program constitutes a space for research, publication and exchange in order to feed public and scientific debate on contemporary Türkiye. 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 Türkiye 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 Türkiye”.

On 3 November 2021, Noria’s Türkiye program organised the seminar “A new foreign policy paradigm? Ideological and practical dimension”