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Cihan Tuğal

Cihan Tuğal teaches sociology at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought down Islamic Liberalism (Verso)

February 2016

  • A refugee camp near the Bab al-Salam crossing on Turkish-Syrian border.

    Syrian refugees in Turkey are pawns in a geopolitical game

    Cihan Tuğal
    Turkey’s government is trying to negotiate with the EU, using refugees as bargaining chips. This hardly brings the crisis closer to a resolution