Evren Balta

Political Scientist

Evren Balta is an Associate Professor International Relations a the Faculty of Social Sciences of Ozyegin University and a Senior Scholar at Istanbul Policy Center. Her main research interests are political violence, security, and citizenship. She is the author of Global Security Complex (Iletisim Publications, 2012), Age of Precariousness (Iletisim Publications, 2019), and The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism (with O Altan-Olcay, UPenn Press 2020)

Blog

The Road to Take

2 February 2021 | Evren Balta | Soli Özel

In his classic 1964 article The Paranoid Style in American Politics, the great American historian Richard Hofstadter identified many movements in American history that were driven by paranoid hysteria. Common to all these movements was a deep distrust of elites, a reaction to developments that...

The Post-Truth Phase Of Turkey’s Pandemic Response

8 December 2020 | Evren Balta | Soli Özel

It has been a rough awakening for the majority of people. For those who followed experts and knew about the rapid spread of the coronavirus elsewhere, who were deeply suspicious of official numbers, the development of the virus in Turkey was not a surprise. The magnitude was still, however,...

The Battle Over the Numbers: Turkey’s Low Case Fatality Rate

4 May 2020 | Evren Balta | Soli Özel

Turkey ranks seventh worldwide in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases reaching almost 120 000 by the last day of April. The country has also been frequently cited for having the fastest rising infection rates in the world, partly due to the increased capacity for testing. In fact, Turkey has...

Dossier |

Publication -