Department of Political Science and International Relations
presents a talk
by

Karabekir Akkoyunlu
University of Graz

Rethinking Hybrid Regimes:
Guardianship and Democracy
in Turkey and Iran

Thursday, April 9th. 2015
IB204, South Campus
Boğaziçi University
14:00 – 16:00

Karabekir Akkoyunlu is assistant professor of politics at the University of Graz, Austria. He completed his PhD in comparative politics at the LSE on the transformation of hybrid regimes in Turkey and Iran. Working on Middle East politics and theories of democracy and democratization, he was a research associate at the Southeast European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX). He has published extensively on Turkish politics, society and foreign affairs and has been a frequent contributor Open Democracy, Al Monitor, Oxford Analytica and CNN International. He holds a B.A. in History and International Relations from Brown University and an M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.