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Public Square Publications
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2022. "A Turkish Pop Video Went Viral. Is It Just a Catchy Song - Or an Anthem for the Opposition?" The Washington Post (Monkey Cage blog), 23 February 2022, with Kenan Behzat Sharpe.

2019. “No One Lost Turkey: Erdoğan’s Foreign Policy Quest for Agency in Russia and Beyond,” Texas National Security Review Roundtable, Vol. 2, No. 4.


2019. “Here’s How Pop Culture Woke Up Turkey’s Disillusioned Opposition on Friday,” The Washington Post (Monkey Cage blog), 10 September 2019.
 
2019. “Challenges to Religious Freedom among Religious Minorities in Turkey,” Report for United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Congressional Hearing 27 June 2019.
 
2019. “Flipping the Scripts: Pop Culture as Alternative Subject and Data Source in MENA Politics,” APSA MENA Politics Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1.
 
2018. “Turkey’s Emerging Role in the Middle East,” Middle East Policy, 4 June 2018, with W. Robert Pearson, Gönül Tol, and Aaron Stein.
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2018. “How a Hashtag and Memes Are Uniting Turkey’s Opposition,” The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog), 11 May.

2018. “Why Recep Erdogan Is Calling Turkish Students Terrorists,” The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog), 12 April.
2017. "A Series of Miscalculations: The Kurdish Referendum and Its Fallout," n IPI Global Observatory, December 19 (with former student Katie Klain).
2017. ​"Hitting Erdogan Where It Hurts, Not Where It Helps," in War on the Rocks, 3 November (with Blaise Misztal)
2017. "Global Support for Turkey Thrown Further into Question," IPI Global Observatory, 24 May (with former student Asya Sağnak).
2017. "Turkey's President Erdogan Has Gone to Extremes to Win Sunday's Referendum. Here's Why," in The Washington Post (Monkey Cage blog), 14 April (with former student Melina Dunham).
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2017. "Burden or Boon? Turkey's Tactical Treatment of the Syrian Refugee Crisis," The Middle East Institute, 17 January (with former student Caroline Feehan).
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2016. "Turkey's Post-Putsch Purge," in The Boston Globe, 28 July.



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2016. "The Dark Side of the Popular Mobilization that Stopped Turkey's Coup Attempt," in The Washington Post (Monkey Cage blog), 21 July.



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2016. "The Real Refugee Crisis is in the Middle East, Not Europe," (with Rawan Arar and Kelsey P. Norman), in The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog), 14 May.



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2015. "The Heinous Consequences of Turkey's Polarization," in The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog), 15 October.



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2014. "No Opposition, No Democracy in Turkey's Elections," in The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog), 3 April.



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2013. "The Might of the Pen(guin) in Turkey's Protests," in Foreign Policy, 10 June.



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2011. "Reading Turkish Politics from a Soap Opera," in Foreign Policy, 7 December.