Basak Ertur

Lecturer in Law and the co-director of Centre for Law and the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London
Something is Missing in the Hrant Dink Murder Ruling

Something is Missing in the Hrant Dink Murder Ruling

Hrant Dink’s murder was the culminating point of a persecution campaign that can be traced back to February 2004, when he published claims to the effect that Sabiha Gökçen, the adopted daughter of Atatürk and the first woman war pilot of the Turkish Republic, was of...

A Note on Violence

A Note on Violence

“The full force of the law must be brought against violent protesters,” David Cameron repeats his mantra, once again, on the evening of 9 December, following the fourth instance of targeted property damage and clashes with the police coming from within the groundswell...

The Nomadic Hive Manifesto

The Nomadic Hive Manifesto

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of debt slaves refusing to pay. All the powers within Europe have entered into a holy alliance to regenerate a failing economy, to realise a lethal dream of returning to business as usual, and to level the education and...